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Letters from the curator of St Vincent Botanic Gardens
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Series
Board of Trade: Commercial Department and successors: Out-letters
Catalogue reference: BT 12
What's it about?
BT 12
Entry books and bound copies of letters sent from the Board of Trade's Commercial Department and its successors. The volumes are indexed internally up to 1885. There are gaps in the surviving volumes, notably the majority of the period July 1897...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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BT 12
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Trade: Commercial Department and successors: Out-letters
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Date (When the record was created)
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1864-1921
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Description (What the record is about)
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Entry books and bound copies of letters sent from the Board of Trade's Commercial Department and its successors. The volumes are indexed internally up to 1885.
There are gaps in the surviving volumes, notably the majority of the period July 1897 to December 1902, for which only the first half of 1900 is covered.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For indexes, 1897-1908, see BT 36
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Some volumes in this series were missing at transfer: July-Dec 1864, 1888, Jan-June 1893, July-Dec 1897, 1898, 1899, July-Dec 1900, 1901, 1902; and the sequence 9106-9245 which should have been between pieces BT 12/83 and BT 12/84.
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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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- Board of Trade, Commercial and Statistical Department, 1872-1886
- Board of Trade, Commercial Department, 1825-1872
- Board of Trade, Commercial Intelligence Department, 1916-1919
- Board of Trade, Commercial Relations and Treaties Department, 1919-1949
- Board of Trade, Commercial, Labour and Statistical Department, 1895-1916
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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160 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
- Trade and commerce
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3055/
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Board of Trade: Commercial Department and successors: Out-letters
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