Catalogue description Home Office: Prisons Correspondence and Papers

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Details of HO 20
Reference: HO 20
Title: Home Office: Prisons Correspondence and Papers
Description:

Original in-letters, reports of inspectors, etc. relating to the administration of convict, ship and local prisons and to their inmates. The series includes papers relating to criminal lunatics at Bethlem Hospital, 1823 to 1835, and a journal of the prison ship Mandarin, 1843.

Date: 1820-1843
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 13 bundle(s)

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