Servants of diplomacy: a domestic history of the Victorian Foreign Office

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: An office of class and classification -- Chapter 1: Keepers of the Office: Accommodation and domestic staff, 1782-1868 -- Residents -- Pets, pests and other miscreants -- Riot and debauchery -- Chapter 2: Keepers of the papers: The Librarian's Department, 1801-68 -- Arranging, methodizing and digesting -- Quite de Jack in office -- Much irregularity -- The hardest working man in Europe -- Unhappy spirit -- Misnomer's heir -- Chapter 3: Carriers of the papers: The King's/Queen's Messengers, 1795-1858 -- Persons of a very subordinate class -- A change in the class of persons -- New ways for old -- Matters of fancy and caprice -- The end of superintendence -- Chapter 4: Adjusting to the new: Accommodation and domestic staff, 1868-1914 -- Servants of the new -- Theft, negligence and security -- Divisions of labour -- Pestilence, redolence and sustenance -- Chapter 5: Managing the past: The Librarian's Department, 1868-1914 -- Salaries, supplementals and salvation -- Archives, arrears and registers -- Publishing the record -- After the Hertslets -- Custody, research (and arrears) -- Chapter 6: Delivering the message: The foreign service messengers, 1858-1914 -- Rewarding gentlemen -- Here today but gone tomorrow -- Testing their worth -- Going local, paying less -- Conclusion: An office of distinction and domesticity -- Bibliography -- Manuscript collections -- Printed documentary and reference works -- Monographs, memoirs and essay collections -- Articles and contributions -- Dissertations -- Newsprint -- Index.

Introduction : an office of class and classification -- Keepers of the office : accommodation and domestic staff, 1782-1868 -- Keepers of the papers : the Librarian's Department, 1801-1868 -- Carriers of the papers : the King's/Queen's messengers, 1795-1858 -- Adjusting to the new : accommodation and domestic staff, 1868-1914 -- Managing the past : the Librarian's Department, 1868-1914 -- Delivering the message : the Foreign Service messengers, 1858-1914 -- Conclusion : an office of distinction and domesticity.