Catalogue description Treasury: Circulars to Establishment Officers

These are the surviving Treasury sets and deal with establishment matters of less general interest than those covered by the series of Treasury Circulars and Establishment Circulars.

Dear Establishment Officer letters were duplicated circular letters which were sent to those Establishment officers likely to be interested in the particular subject. They were an un-numbered series although each letter usually contained the relevant file reference and was to be found only on that subject file.

Each Treasury division acted independently in issuing these Dear Establishment Officer letters which dealt with establishment matters of less prominent interest than those covered by Establishment Circulars eg, they were used to notify departments of staff vacancies, to draw attention to matters of general interest and to call for statistical returns.

The listed Dear Establishment Officer letters for the period 1940-1959 are the surviving Treasury sets.

From 1963, the Dear Establishment Officer letters were bound, and the Civil Service Department, which for record purposes took responsibility for all establishment matters, holds the one set of bound volumes for the period 1963-1972 when a new style circular came into use.