Catalogue description Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts: Correspondence and Papers

This series contains the early records of the Royal Commission. They include registers of correspondence, drafts of reports, correspondence and papers for Commissioners' meetings and files of the Commission's correspondence. The correspondence covers all aspects of the Commission's work. Subjects covered include the location of archives and their safety, especially in wartime; publications; the setting up of the National Register of Archives including the minutes and papers of the Master of the Rolls Archives Committee; and the reconstitution of the Commission in 1959. Also included are the copies of the Commission's estimates for the early part of this century: these include interleaved correspondence and notes.