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Series
War Office and predecessors: Commissariat Department: Out-letters
Catalogue reference: WO 58
What's it about?
WO 58
These entry books consist of the following: miscellaneous correspondence relating to appointments, salaries, contracts, etc, 1798 to 1858; schedules of contractors and contracts with miscellaneous correspondence, 1809 to 1812; letters to...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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WO 58
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Title (The name of the record)
- War Office and predecessors: Commissariat Department: Out-letters
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Date (When the record was created)
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1793-1888
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Description (What the record is about)
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These entry books consist of the following: miscellaneous correspondence relating to appointments, salaries, contracts, etc, 1798 to 1858; schedules of contractors and contracts with miscellaneous correspondence, 1809 to 1812; letters to government departments, 1809 to 1856 and 1878 to 1888; letters to commissariat officers stationed abroad, 1798 to 1858; correspondence between the Treasury and commissariat officers employed on special services, 1793 to 1816 and 1856 to 1858; letters from and to various Deputy Commissaries General and foreign letter books of the Commissary in Chief.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Records to foreign stations are arranged under the country.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For papers of Thomas Archer, principal clerk in the Commissariat Department of the Treasury, 1835 to 1854, see WO 77
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Commander-in-Chief, Commissariat Department, 1806-1816
- Commissary General, 1793-1806
- Treasury, Commissariat Department, 1816-1854
- War Department, Commissariat, 1855-1857
- War Office, Commissariat, 1857-1887
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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178 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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14266/
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