Catalogue description Public Record Office: Miscellanea

This series contains miscellaneous correspondence and papers relating to the building, maintenance, staffing and regulation of the Public Record Office and the Rolls Chapel repository, including plans and drawings of the office and a register of correspondence of James (later Sir James) Pennethorne relating to the construction of the Office and the Museum of Practical Geology.

The series also includes departmental rules and regulations, parliamentary papers, press cuttings, articles, photographs and prints relating to the office. A few papers relate to Scottish and Irish repositories.

For more information concerning former references see:

For records of the British Transport Historical Records Office at the Porchester Road out-station, see AN 104

PRO 56/27

OBS 1/1343

There were formerly 311 pieces in this series, but in 1961/62 it was reviewed and the majority of the documents were either transferred to other series or were destroyed as unworthy of permanent preservation.