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Letters from the curator of St Vincent Botanic Gardens
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Series
Treasury: Books of Out-letters to the Admiralty
Catalogue reference: T 5
What's it about?
T 5
Treasury letters to the Admiralty, Greenwich Hospital and Trinity House, and other letters on Naval matters, including the slave trade and convict ships. Up to 1877 this series includes letters to the Registrars of the High Court of Admiralty.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- T 5
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Title (The name of the record)
- Treasury: Books of Out-letters to the Admiralty
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1849-1920
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Description (What the record is about)
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Treasury letters to the Admiralty, Greenwich Hospital and Trinity House, and other letters on Naval matters, including the slave trade and convict ships. Up to 1877 this series includes letters to the Registrars of the High Court of Admiralty.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Earlier records can be found in T 28
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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)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 58 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Treasury
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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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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Records maintained by Treasury from the 19th century until 1955.
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No further accruals expected.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Agreement between Treasury and the Public Record Office that any post-1920 records could be destroyed from 1959 as the out-letters were on Treasury registered files. Records from 4 Oct 1920 to July 1952 destroyed.
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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 assembly of volumes of handwritten out-letters goes back to the 17th century. From the 1870s when typewriters were used in the Treasury typed copies of letters would be found on the Treasury registered files, and a decision was made in 1958 to destroy copies of Out-Letters from 1920.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13742/
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Treasury: Books of Out-letters to the Admiralty
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