Catalogue description Colonial Office: Private Office Papers

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Details of CO 967
Reference: CO 967
Title: Colonial Office: Private Office Papers
Description:

The series contains private office papers on various subjects including the functions and organisation of the Colonial Office, appointments of governors and other officials and visits to and development of the colonies. There are also files relating to the League of Nations, the International Tin Agreement and the Imperial Communications Advisory Committee together with correspondence with various governors and semi-official correspondence. Though the papers are unregistered many of those files originating with Sir Thomas Lloyd, Permanent Under Secretary for the colonies 1947-1956, do retain departmental references.

Date: 1873-1966
Arrangement:

The records are arranged by subject or colony to CO 967/152, and thereafter by the name of the minister or official whose private office papers they were.

Related material:

For later private office files see FCO 73

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 443 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

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