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Catalogue description Colonial Office: Victoria Original Correspondence
| Reference: | CO 309 |
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| Title: | Colonial Office: Victoria Original Correspondence |
| Description: |
This series contains original correspondence relating to Victoria. |
| Date: | 1851-1900 |
| 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 précis of each letter giving name of correspondent, date of letter and subject matter. |
| Related material: |
For correspondence before 1851 see CO 201 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: | 150 volume(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open |
| Unpublished finding aids: |
For registers of correspondence see CO 374 |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
Victoria, having previously been governed from New South Wales, became a separate British colony in 1851. In 1901 it became a state of the new Commonwealth of Australia. |
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