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Colonial Office: High Commission for South Africa, Original Correspondence
Catalogue reference: CO 417
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CO 417
This series contains correspondence relating to the High Commission territories of Basutoland, the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland, and to those neighbours with which the High Commissioner conducted relations - chiefly German South-West...
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CO 417
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Title (The name of the record)
- Colonial Office: High Commission for South Africa, Original Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
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1884-1925
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains correspondence relating to the High Commission territories of Basutoland, the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland, and to those neighbours with which the High Commissioner conducted relations - chiefly German South-West Africa, Portuguese East Africa, the Union of South Africa and its predecessors, and the British South Africa Company as administrator of Rhodesia.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For later correspondence see DO 9
For later correspondence relating to Rhodesia, see: CO 767 CO 795
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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)
- Colonial Office, High Commissioner for South Africa, 1880-1925
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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716 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure
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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 of this correspondence see CO 545 For the register of out-letters whose drafts are attached to this correspondence see CO 546
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4607/
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