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Post Office: Marquis of Salisbury: correspondence
Catalogue reference: POST 99
What’s it about?
This record is about the Post Office: Marquis of Salisbury: correspondence dating from 1820-1823.
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Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- POST 99
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Title (The name of the record)
- Post Office: Marquis of Salisbury: correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1820-1823
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of correspondence between the Marquis of Salisbury, Postmaster General, and Francis Freeling, Secretary of The Post Office, and mainly unnamed individuals. Subjects covered include staff appointments, the establishment and implementation of new Post Office services, letter traffic, the operation of services and instructions to staff.
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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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Freeling, Francis, 1764-1836
- Gascoyne-Cecil, James Brownlow William, 1791-1868
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 4 volume(s)
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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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- Topics
- Communications
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Marquis of Salisbury, together with the Earl of Chichester, held the appointment of Joint Postmaster General from 6 April 1816. In May 1822 it was ordered in the House of Commons that the office of one of the Postmaster Generals be abolished to save revenue. Salisbury (the junior of the two) gave orders that his salary should be discontinued whilst he retained the appointment of Postmaster General. It was not until Salisbury's death on 13 June 1823 that Lord Chichester was appointed sole Postmaster General.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11812/
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Post Office: Marquis of Salisbury: correspondence
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