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British Postal Museum and Archive: The Royal Mail Archive

Post Office: Accounts of Packet Ship Services and British Overseas Posts


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0813 POST 4 Series

Held at: British Postal Museum and Archive: The Royal Mail Archive

Title: Post Office: Accounts of Packet Ship Services and British Overseas Posts

Date(s): 1773-1857

Level of description: Series

Extent: 32 volumes

Name of creator(s): Post Office

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

This series comprises accounts of British packet services and overseas posts, including records of agents and postmasters, packet stations, and packet boats. The accounts cover income, expenditure, salaries, allowances and disbursements.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

This series comprises accounts of British packet services and overseas posts, including records of agents and postmasters, packet stations, and packet boats. The accounts cover income, expenditure, salaries, allowances and disbursements.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Chronological.

Conditions governing access:

Public Record

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Postal Heritage Trust's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. See our published policies for full details. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Finding aids:

A Guide to the Royal Mail Archive

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Records transferred internally from Royal Mail.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of copies:

Some of the items in this series are available on microfilm for viewing in the Search Room.

Related material:

Further information and records on packet stations and boats can be found in POST classes 9, 12, 29, 43 and 48

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International 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: 24/03/2011 EAD validated May 2011


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Naval history | History
Postal services | Communication industry
Shipping | Maritime transport | Transport
Shipping records | Documents | Information sources
Ships | Vehicles | Transport
Water transport

Personal names

Corporate names
Post Office | GPO

Places