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Post Office: Private Collections: Lord Walsingham, Joint Postmaster-General
Catalogue reference: POST 97
What’s it about?
This record is about the Post Office: Private Collections: Lord Walsingham, Joint Postmaster-General dating from 1787-1794.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- POST 97
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Title (The name of the record)
- Post Office: Private Collections: Lord Walsingham, Joint Postmaster-General
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1787-1794
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Description (What the record is about)
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Papers of Lord Walsingham, Joint Postmaster General 1787 - 1794. Volumes containing copies and some original documents of Lord Walsingham. Much information is carried on the working of the Post Office, especially with regards postal and packet services in British North America and the West Indies, mail coach affairs, accounts of costs and revenue, salaries and wages, establishments and returns.
Please see The Postal Museum's online catalogue for descriptions of individual records within this series.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Catalogue entries below series level were removed from Discovery, The National Archives' online catalogue, in November 2016 because fuller descriptions were available in The Postal Museum's online catalogue.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The Postal Museum
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11810/
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Post Office: Private Collections: Lord Walsingham, Joint Postmaster-General
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