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British Postal Museum and Archive: The Royal Mail Archive

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

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 AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Please see scope and content.

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

Existence and location of copies:

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

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.

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


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Business administration | Business
Business management | Management
Postal services | Communication industry
Business x Enterprises
Business administration x Business management

Personal names

Corporate names
Post Office

Places
Ireland | Western Europe | Europe
Great Britain