Post Office: Inland Mails Organisation, Letter Books

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0813 POST 15 Series
Held at	: British Postal Museum and Archive: The Royal Mail Archive   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://catalogue.postalmuseum.org/ ›
Full title	: Post Office: Inland Mails Organisation, Letter Books
Date(s)	: 1784-1937
Level of description	: Series
Extent	: 78 volumes
Name of creator(s)	: No further information available

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

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Content

Scope and content/abstract:

This series comprises copy letter books relating to administration of the Post Office in Britain and Ireland and, to an extent, overseas.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

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Conditions governing access:

Public Record

Conditions governing reproduction:

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Finding aids:

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Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

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Allied Materials

Related material:

Files on administration of mail conveyance by railway, 1859-1936 were transferred to POST 11

Files on provincial post office administration, 1798-1830 relating to finance, services and staff were transferred to POST 14

Overseas mails letter books are in POST 48

Files on the Scottish Post Office solicitor's letter copy books relating tolegal actions and inquiries, 1793-1804; were transferred to POST 74.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry checked by Barbara Ball

Rules or conventions:

Compiled in compliance with General Internation Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G) second edition 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997

Date(s) of descriptions:
Entry checked June 2011