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Catalogue description Colonial Office: Queensland, Original Correspondence
| Reference: | CO 234 |
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| Title: | Colonial Office: Queensland, Original Correspondence |
| Description: |
This series comprises volumes of correspondence between the Secretary of State for the Colonies and the Governor, public offices and individuals concerning Queensland. |
| Date: | 1859-1900 |
| Arrangement: |
Letters are arranged chronologically within categories; copies of out-letters sometimes follow incoming correspondence. Each volume has a contents list or a précis of the contents. |
| Related material: |
For correspondence after 1900 see CO 418 For entry books of out-letters see CO 423 |
| 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: | 71 volume(s) |
| Unpublished finding aids: |
For registers to this correspondence see CO 424. For registers to out-letters see CO 450. For indexed précis of correspondence see CO 714/130. |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
Queensland was first settled in 1824 from New South Wales. In 1859 it was separated from New South Wales to become a separate colony, and in 1901 it became an original state of the new Commonwealth of Australia. |
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