Catalogue description Post Office: Marquis of Salisbury: correspondence

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Reference: POST 99
Title: Post Office: Marquis of Salisbury: correspondence
Description:

This series consists of correspondence between the Marquis of Salisbury, Postmaster General, and Francis Freeling, Secretary of The Post Office, and mainly unnamed individuals. Subjects covered include staff appointments, the establishment and implementation of new Post Office services, letter traffic, the operation of services and instructions to staff.

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Note: Catalogue entries below series level were removed from Discovery, The National Archives' online catalogue, in November 2016 because fuller descriptions were available in The Postal Museum's online catalogue.
Date: 1820-1823
Held by: The Postal Museum, not available at The National Archives
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Sir Francis Freeling, 1764-1836

James Brownlow William Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury, 1791-1868
Physical description: 4 volume(s)
Administrative / biographical background:

The Marquis of Salisbury, together with the Earl of Chichester, held the appointment of Joint Postmaster General from 6 April 1816. In May 1822 it was ordered in the House of Commons that the office of one of the Postmaster Generals be abolished to save revenue. Salisbury (the junior of the two) gave orders that his salary should be discontinued whilst he retained the appointment of Postmaster General. It was not until Salisbury's death on 13 June 1823 that Lord Chichester was appointed sole Postmaster General.

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