Correspondence. France, 1782-1905

 
Component identifier:
Series FO 27
Extent:
1654 items
Content Summary:

The material filmed consists of correspondence chiefly concerned with British and French colonial activities in the Pacific, and expeditions to Australia and the Pacific. Included in the correspondence is information on topics such as the supply of arms and men to British and French Pacific stations, trade and navigation in the Pacific, and missionary activities in the area. Much correspondence emanated from the British consulate in Paris, and in reply from the Foreign Office; other correspondence had its source at British consulates in the Pacific, enclosing copies of letters to and from French representatives in the Pacific.

Correspondence concerning Tahiti, especially the activities of the London Missionary Society there, is included in this Series after 1843, when Tahiti became a French protectorate.

Those pieces containing information on the New Hebrides have generally been filmed in toto. Later pieces (from 1900) include a great deal of material covering French annexation of the New Hebrides and land claims in those islands. At that time, the New Hebrides was under the jurisdiction of the 'Australian Station', and Australian views on the New Hebrides' question, including some correspondence from Edmund Barton, are included in the material filmed.

The Copying from this Series has been extremely selective, in many cases only one or two letters from a piece having been filmed.

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Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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