Catalogue description Public Record Office: Literary Enquiries, Letters, Returns, etc.

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Details of PRO 35
Reference: PRO 35
Title: Public Record Office: Literary Enquiries, Letters, Returns, etc.
Description:

Public Record Office correspondence relating to literary searches (without the payment of fees); reports of the use made of literary search facilities; and returns giving names of searchers, the objects of their searches and the numbers and types of documents seen.

An index to the series is in PRO 35/16
Date: 1851-1866
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 16 volume(s)
Administrative / biographical background:

All fees for literary searches were abolished after 26 May 1866 and the separation of correspondence relating to literary enquiries from the general correspondence was discontinued.

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