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Catalogue description Colonial Office: Lagos, Original Correspondence
| Reference: | CO 147 |
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| Title: | Colonial Office: Lagos, Original Correspondence |
| Description: |
This series contains original correspondence relating to Lagos. |
| Date: | 1861-1906 |
| Arrangement: |
Bound volumes arranged chronologically within the following subject headings: Despatches (letters of the Governors), Offices (letters of government departments and other organisations), and Individuals (arranged alphabetically). Each volume with a contents list, or a précis of each letter giving name of correspondent, date of letter and subject matter. |
| Related material: |
For later correspondence see CO 520 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Physical description: | 179 volume(s) |
| Unpublished finding aids: |
For registers of this correspondence see CO 421. Correspondence for 1883-1886 is registered in the Gold Coast registers in CO 343. |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
Lagos was ceded to British rule by its king in 1861. It became a colony in 1862. From 1866 to 1874 it was part of the West African Settlements and from 1874 to 1886 it was ruled as part of the Gold Coast colony. Lagos became a separate crown colony again in 1886, and amalgamated with the Protectorate of Southern Nigeria in 1906. |
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