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Letters from the curator of St Vincent Botanic Gardens
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Series
Marine Out-letters
Catalogue reference: MT 4
What's it about?
MT 4
This series consists of entry books and bound copies of out-letters of the Marine Department of the Board of Trade, 1851 to 1939, and the Marine and Sea Transport Divisions of the Ministry of Shipping, October to December 1939.The correspondence...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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MT 4
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Title (The name of the record)
- Marine Out-letters
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Date (When the record was created)
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1851-1939
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of entry books and bound copies of out-letters of the Marine Department of the Board of Trade, 1851 to 1939, and the Marine and Sea Transport Divisions of the Ministry of Shipping, October to December 1939.
The correspondence includes: general and circular letters; a specialised series concerning wrecks; foreshores; pensions; public offices; sea transport and transport finance. Papers of the Consultative Marine Branch and a minute book of correspondence for 1857 are also included.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Volumes of general letters are indexed up to December 1866. Separate indexes to the general series, 1864 to 1918, and the wreck series, 1866 to 1867, are in MT 5
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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1424 volume(s)
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 1967 Ministry of Transport
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11054/
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Marine Out-letters
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