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Great Britain Foreign Office : Records relating to French affairs in the Pacific
- Date
- 1782-1905
- By
- Great Britain. Foreign Office
- Reference
- Micro-MS-Coll-07
- Description
The records comprise Foreign Office documentation (FO 27) concerning French activities in the Pacific with some coverage of the Dutch East Indies and the South East Asia area.
The copying has been selective; in many cases only one or two letters from a piece have been filmed. Most of the correspondence is between the British Consulate in Paris and the Foreign Office. There are also reports from Consulates in the Pacific, enclosing French communications.
The records concern French expeditions to the Pacific; French interest in Australia and New Zealand; Catholic-Protestant missions and rivalry in the Pacific; the annexation of Tahiti; the New Hebrides and New Caledonia and the establishment of French colonies and penal settlements; the escape of convicts to Australia and Australian and French naval activities; trade, tariff, and postal matters in the Pacific.
A - Other
Quantity: 97 microfilm reel(s).
Physical Description: Mss (microfilm)
Finding Aids: AJCP handbook Part 5. Inventory available.
- Additional description
Alternative form available: A digitised copy of this microfilm is available on the National Library of Australia website Trove at https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-727924394/findingaid#nla-obj-727950378
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Format
- 97 microfilm reel(s), Business records, Manuscripts, Microfilms, Mss (microfilm)
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Piece records 861-942
Date: 1850-1852
From: Great Britain Foreign Office : Records relating to French affairs in the Pacific
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-07-3597
Description: Relating to Tahiti and French interests in Hawaii, the establishment of consuls in Australia and New Zealand, the occupation of New Caledonia, relations with British missionaries in Tahit, and French naval movements in the Pacific. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Piece records 1006-1092
Date: 1854-1855
From: Great Britain Foreign Office : Records relating to French affairs in the Pacific
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-07-3599
Description: Relating to the annexation of New Caledonia, the annexation of Hawaii by the United States, trade between the Australasian colonies and the French territories, disturbances in Tahiti and Raiatea, French naval movenments in the Pacific, Russian naval movements and other Pacific aspects of the war with Russia, and problems involving British trading vessels. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Piece records 2149-2188
Date: 1875-1876
From: Great Britain Foreign Office : Records relating to French affairs in the Pacific
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-07-3615
Description: Consular and diplomatic activities in the Australian and in the Fench Pacific colonies, particularly New Caledonia and the issue of escaped communard prisoners. Includes papers on French exploration of New Guinea, possible annexation of the New Hebrides, ship movements and distribution of plants, particularly eucalyptus. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Piece records 2025-2064
Date: 1873-1874
From: Great Britain Foreign Office : Records relating to French affairs in the Pacific
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-07-3612
Description: Concerned with consular and diplomatic activities in the Australian colonies, and in the Fench Pacific colonies, especially with regard to the transportation of communards to New Caledonia, and trade with Tahiti. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Piece records 3719-3737
Date: 1905
From: Great Britain Foreign Office : Records relating to French affairs in the Pacific
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-07-3682
Description: Concerns French claims in Samoa; New Zealand Shipping Act, 1903; visit of French cruiser Protet to NZ; consular matters, matters regarding A E P Molesworth and J P Prat; also records of the Noumea and Tahiti Sections. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Piece records 608-661
Date: 1840-1842
From: Great Britain Foreign Office : Records relating to French affairs in the Pacific
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-07-3590
Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Piece records 2657-2692
Date: 1883-1884
From: Great Britain Foreign Office : Records relating to French affairs in the Pacific
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-07-3629
Description: Consular records, concerning subjects such as shipwrecks, attacks on blackbirders, the supply of Australian horses for the French army, cases involving individuals and ships. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Piece records 745-770
Date: 1846
From: Great Britain Foreign Office : Records relating to French affairs in the Pacific
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-07-3594
Description: Principally concerning the French occupation of Tahiti and the Pritchard affair, concern about French interest in Hawaii and in other islands. Some material on trade between Tahiti and the Australasian colonies. Includes a plan of the Tahiti Archipelago. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Piece records 2259-2291, 2301-2319
Date: 1870-1878
From: Great Britain Foreign Office : Records relating to French affairs in the Pacific
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-07-3618
Description: Consular and diplomatic activities in the Australian and in the Fench Pacific colonies (1877); establishment of Mr Layard as Consul in New Caledonia; protestant islanders in the Loyalty Islands, trade matters, the Franco-Annam Treaty (1875); papers concerning blackbirding and contract labour in New Caledonia; proposed French colony in North West Australia (1878). Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Piece records 942-1004A
Date: 1852-1854
From: Great Britain Foreign Office : Records relating to French affairs in the Pacific
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-07-3598
Description: Relating to Tahiti and the annexation of Hawaii by the United States, the establishment of French consuls in Australia and New Zealand, the French occupation of New Caledonia, relations with British missionaries in Tahit, and French naval movements in the Pacific. Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive. Finding Aids: Inventory available.