Series:
Despatches received from the Secretary of State.
Series Number:
Access:
Open
Start Date:
29 Aug 1823
End Date:
28 Dec 1932
Creating Agency:
| Governor's Office (TA315) | 01 Jan 1825 |
| Lieutenant-Governor's Office (TA863) | 16 Feb 1804 | 03 Dec 1825 |
Related Series:
| CSO79 Register of Despatches from the Secretary of State for the Colonies. | 01 Apr 1847 | 06 Feb 1858 |
| AE713 Shelf Catalogue of Volumes 1 - 53 of the Secretary of States Despatches to Tasmania 1825 - 1856 Compiled Feb 1924 | 28 Aug 1823 | 31 Dec 1856 |
Controlling Series:
| GO21 Registers of Despatches received from the Secretary of State. | 02 Aug 1826 | 16 Dec 1963 |
| GO23 Indexes to Despatches received from the Secretary of State. | 01 Jan 1825 | 31 Dec 1885 |
Subsequent Series:
| GO13 Colonial Office Despatches Acknowledging and Repeating Telegraphic Communications received from the Governor. | 08 Apr 1881 | 05 Dec 1894 |
| GO6 "Library" Despatches received from the Colonial Office. | 04 Jun 1869 | 22 Dec 1932 |
How to Use:
Digital images of items in this record series to item 114 (March 1860) are available to view online by clicking on the item links below to get to the Item Details pages.
Most of the volumes were digitised as double pages, but only one page number for each is referenced in the majority of digital copies.
Items in this series may be freely used.
When using or sharing the images, please ensure that clear attribution is made to the Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office (TAHO).
TAHO does not endorse any inappropriate or derogatory use.
Series notes:
The despatches in this series were bound more or less contemporaneously into volumes until March, 1860. No distinctions were observed between the various categories of despatches, and all were bound in one chronological series. However, from April, 1860 the various categories have been separated from each other, and this series continues with the numbered despatches only. In any case by far the greater part of the despatches received up to 1860 were of the numbered series, and the exceptions (circulars, separate despatches and other categories) are relatively few. It would therefore not be far from the truth to entitle this series "Numbered despatches received from the Secretary of State."
These records are part of the holdings of the Tasmanian Archives
System of Arrangement:
Chronological The numbering of these despatches is inconsistent until 1848. With a few minor exceptions, all Secretaries of State began a new series on their appointment; some also began a new series with every new year, while others carried the same series over several years or even over the whole period of their office. The practice of beginning a new series for a new Governor also became standard from 1847.;;In the basement of Franklin Square, Miss Wayn of the Chief Secretarys Dept had 115 volumes of despatches received by the Governor between 1823 and Dec 1856 stored on Panel D. The 115 volumes of Inward Despatches comprised four separate series (GO1. GO2, GO3, GO17). The numbers in the description field are the numbers used by Miss Wayn in her precis book (AE713) and identified as ID on the Wayn index cards (AE807)
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