Catalogue description Colonial Office: Queensland, Original Correspondence

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Reference: CO 234
Title: Colonial Office: Queensland, Original Correspondence
Description:

This series comprises volumes of correspondence between the Secretary of State for the Colonies and the Governor, public offices and individuals concerning Queensland.

Date: 1859-1900
Arrangement:

Letters are arranged chronologically within categories; copies of out-letters sometimes follow incoming correspondence. Each volume has a contents list or a précis of the contents.

Related material:

For correspondence after 1900 see CO 418

For entry books of out-letters see CO 423

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Copies held at:

Microfilm copies were created as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project (1948-1997). The microfilm images have been digitised and made available online by the National Library of Australia.

Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 71 volume(s)
Unpublished finding aids:

For registers to this correspondence see CO 424. For registers to out-letters see CO 450. For indexed précis of correspondence see CO 714/130.

Administrative / biographical background:

Queensland was first settled in 1824 from New South Wales. In 1859 it was separated from New South Wales to become a separate colony, and in 1901 it became an original state of the new Commonwealth of Australia.

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