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Report from Secret Committee of the House of Lords relative to GPO; list of warrants...
Catalogue reference: HD 3/16
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This record is about the Report from Secret Committee of the House of Lords relative to GPO; list of warrants... dating from 1844 in the series Foreign Office: Permanent Under Secretary's Department: Correspondence and Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1844
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Report from Secret Committee of the House of Lords relative to GPO; list of warrants issued by secretaries of state for foreign affairs to the post master general for intercepting mail; correspondence with Francis Willes and memoranda concerning tenure of positions within secret decyphering department; correspondence about ownership of some papers; further correspondence about an unspecified incident possibly involving Spain
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- International
- Europe and Russia
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HD 3
Foreign Office: Permanent Under Secretary's Department: Correspondence and Papers
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