Record revealed
Hoax letter signed by ‘Jack the Ripper’
This is one of hundreds of letters in police files claiming to have been written by the infamous Whitechapel Murderer – otherwise known as 'Jack the Ripper'.
Piece
Stray petitions and correspondence found during a project to catalogue this series...
Catalogue reference: HO 17/132
What’s it about?
This record is about the Stray petitions and correspondence found during a project to catalogue this series... dating from 1820-1839 in the series Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HO 17/132
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1820-1839
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Description (What the record is about)
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Stray petitions and correspondence found during a project to catalogue this series of criminal petitions (HO 17).
Items include those which can be identified from HO 19 registers or other sources but for which the original HO 17 piece does not survive and others for which no proper place can be identified.
Details are given at item level.
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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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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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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
- Crime
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16943409/
Series information
HO 17
Home Office: Criminal Petitions, Series I
See the series level description for more information about this record.
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