Great Britain. Colonial Office - New South Wales Governors' Despatches, 1813-1879
Great Britain. Colonial Office - New South Wales Governors' Despatches, 1813-1879
Great Britain. Colonial Office - New South Wales Governors' Despatches, 1813-1879
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Date
1813-1879
Call Numbers
D74-D75 , A1191-A1321
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Finding aids
Transcript available online - Watson family – papers concerning the New Australia Scheme, 1893 – 1937
A 3306 - http://archival-classic.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2017/D00007/a1227.html
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Contents
These are handwritten duplicate copies kept in New South Wales, of the original despatches sent to the Secretary of State for Colonies (Colonial Office) and now held in the Public Records Office (PRO), London (PRO Class: CO201). The Australian Joint Copying Project microfilmed the original PRO volumes of despatches and microfilm copies are held in...
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Full title
Great Britain. Colonial Office - New South Wales Governors' Despatches, 1813-1879
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Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Digital order no:a991001
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by the British Government (Colonial Office), 1910
Administrative / Biographical history
The governors of New South Wales regularly forwarded despatches to the British Government giving detailed reports on all matters of major and minor importance. Duplicates and triplicates of all despatches were forwarded and they were handwritten either by the Governor himself, his secretary or a clerk. Many despatches also contained enclosures.
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Call Numbers
D74-D75 , A1191-A1321
Record Identifier
nQR20ZQ1
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nQR20ZQ1
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Reference code
912828
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