Correspondence and Papers, Departmental. Admiralty, Correspondence, 1780-1840
- Component identifier:
- Series HO 28
- Extent:
- 58 items
- Content Summary:
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Series of correspondence and papers received by the Home Office from the Admiralty, mainly concerned with the Admiralty's part in transporting convicts - the necessary food and clothing for the convicts and victualling of ships. These may be divided into three groups:
1. In-letters, 1784-1840. Volumes 4-56.
2. Prize Court Papers, 1780-1783. Volumes 57-58.
3. Supplementary Papers, 1785-1811. Volumes 61-63.
Letters and enclosures received from the Admiralty and in many instances draft letters from the Home Office to the Admiralty are arranged in chronological order.
The Australian Joint Copying Project filmed pieces 25-56 in full. For other pieces, selected extracts only have been copied.
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- Parent Terms of Access:
- Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the National Archives of the UK. Further advice is available from: The National Archives of the UK. Copyright. (http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/legal/copyright)
- Location of this collection:
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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