Catalogue description War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Western Australia, Original Correspondence

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Reference: CO 18
Title: War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Western Australia, Original Correspondence
Description:

This series contains of original correspondence relating to Western Australia (formerly the Swan River settlement). After 1873 copies of out-letters are included.
Date: 1828-1900
Arrangement:

Chronological within the following subject headings: letters of the Governor, of government departments, and of individuals (and, in the early period, settlers). The latter are listed alphabetically. Each volume with a contents list or précis of each letter, listing name of correspondent, date of letter and subject matter.
Related material:

For out-letters before 1873 see CO 397

For records after 1900 see CO 418
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Copies held at:

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.
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 228 volume(s)
Unpublished finding aids:

For a register of incoming correspondence before 1849 see CO 326; from 1849 onwards see CO 332. For a register of out-letters from 1873 see CO 353. For an indexed précis of incoming correspondence from 1828 to 1866 see CO 714/11-15.

Administrative / biographical background:

In 1828 Western Australia became a British settlement (originally known as the Swan River settlement) and in 1901 it became a state of the new Commonwealth of Australia.

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