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Colonial Office and predecessors: Confidential General and Confidential Original...

Catalogue reference: CO 537

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CO 537

This series is mainly composed of secret despatches and telegrams withheld from the various Colony and subject and general series of original correspondence (otherwise in Correspondence with the colonies, entry books and registers of...

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Reference
CO 537
Title
Colonial Office and predecessors: Confidential General and Confidential Original Correspondence
Date
1759-1968
Description

This series is mainly composed of secret despatches and telegrams withheld from the various Colony and subject and general series of original correspondence (otherwise in Correspondence with the colonies, entry books and registers of correspondence) at the time when they were bound up, but now declassified. The series also includes 39 volumes of papers relating to the Uganda Railway; and some unregistered correspondence.

Related material

For registers of this correspondence see CO 694

For registers of the Uganda Railway papers see CO 615

For further records relating to the Uganda Railway see CO 614

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Physical description
7878 files and volumes
Access conditions
Open unless otherwise stated
Subjects
Topics
International
Railways
Communications
Africa
Accruals
Series is accruing
Copies information
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.
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4727/

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