Secret Service Fund Accounts 1913-1914: Includes Papers and Correspondence Regarding Expenses in Connection with the Visit of HMS New Zealand to Montevideo (Uruguay) and Valparaiso (Chile) and Expense Payments to an Agent

A file of correspondence and financial records for the Foreign Office in the period immediately before the First World War. Examples of documents include a list of pensions to be paid to the dependents of agents; the running costs of the cyphers department and of foreign missions and consulates; letters regarding possible reimbursement of the cost of a diplomatic entertainment for the crew of the battlecruiser New Zealand in Montevideo; and correspondence about the management of an intelligence agent referred to as "Snell".