Catalogue description War Office and predecessors: Commissariat Department: Out-letters

These entry books consist of the following: miscellaneous correspondence relating to appointments, salaries, contracts, etc, 1798 to 1858; schedules of contractors and contracts with miscellaneous correspondence, 1809 to 1812; letters to government departments, 1809 to 1856 and 1878 to 1888; letters to commissariat officers stationed abroad, 1798 to 1858; correspondence between the Treasury and commissariat officers employed on special services, 1793 to 1816 and 1856 to 1858; letters from and to various Deputy Commissaries General and foreign letter books of the Commissary in Chief.

For papers of Thomas Archer, principal clerk in the Commissariat Department of the Treasury, 1835 to 1854, see WO 77

Commander-in-Chief, Commissariat Department, 1806-1816

Commissary General, 1793-1806

Treasury, Commissariat Department, 1816-1854

War Department, Commissariat, 1855-1857

War Office, Commissariat, 1857-1887