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Series
Colonial Office: Tasmania, Original Correspondence
Catalogue reference: CO 280
What's it about?
CO 280
Correspondence relating to Tasmania, including some with the Van Diemen's Land Company and the Australian Agricultural Company.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CO 280
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Title (The name of the record)
- Colonial Office: Tasmania, Original Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1824-1900
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Description (What the record is about)
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Correspondence relating to Tasmania, including some with the Van Diemen's Land Company and the Australian Agricultural Company.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Bound volumes arranged chronologically within the following subject headings: Despatches (letters of the governors), Offices (letters of government departments and other organisations) and Individuals (arranged alphabetically). Each volume with a contents list, or précis of each letter giving name of correspondent, date of letter and subject matter. The series includes some case volumes.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See also CO 282
For correspondence after 1900 see CO 418
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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)
- 403 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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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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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- For registers and an alphabetical index to correspondence for 1820-1866 see CO 714/148-153. For entry books of out-letters 1825 to 1872 see CO 408. For registers of correspondence before 1849 see CO 326, for separate registers of correspondence from 1849 to 1900 see CO 370. For registers of out-letters 1873 to 1900 see CO 371
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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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Until 1825 Tasmania (until 1854 known as Van Diemen's Land) was a dependency of New South Wales, after this date it became a separate colony. In 1901 Tasmania became a state within the new Commonwealth of Australia.
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Copies information (Indicates existence, availability, location and format of copies)
- Microfilm copies were created as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project (1948-1997). The microfilm images have been digitised and made available online by the National Library of Australia.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4471/
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