Catalogue description Public Record Office: Government Searches

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Details of PRO 3
Reference: PRO 3
Title: Public Record Office: Government Searches
Description:

Letters from government departments to the Public Record Office requesting and authorising searches to be made in the public records, with some drafts of replies, requisitions for documents, etc.
Date: 1860-1899
Arrangement:

For the period 1862-1883 the papers have been bound up indiscriminately in the two series of volumes 15 to 18 and 43 to 49.
Separated material:

After 1899 the correspondence similar to that preserved in this series has mostly been destroyed.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 80 volume(s)

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