Catalogue description Board of Trade: Commercial Department and successors: Out-letters

Entry books and bound copies of letters sent from the Board of Trade's Commercial Department and its successors. The volumes are indexed internally up to 1885.

There are gaps in the surviving volumes, notably the majority of the period July 1897 to December 1902, for which only the first half of 1900 is covered.

For indexes, 1897-1908, see

BT 36

Some volumes in this series were missing at transfer: July-Dec 1864, 1888, Jan-June 1893, July-Dec 1897, 1898, 1899, July-Dec 1900, 1901, 1902; and the sequence 9106-9245 which should have been between pieces BT 12/83 and BT 12/84.

Board of Trade, Commercial and Statistical Department, 1872-1886

Board of Trade, Commercial Department, 1825-1872

Board of Trade, Commercial Intelligence Department, 1916-1919

Board of Trade, Commercial Relations and Treaties Department, 1919-1949

Board of Trade, Commercial, Labour and Statistical Department, 1895-1916