Cover image for Correspondence received relating to the Suspension of the Colonial Secretary and the Solicitor-General.
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Correspondence received relating to the Suspension of the Colonial Secretary and the Solicitor-General.
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Open
Start Date:
01 Jan 1841
End Date:
31 Dec 1843
Creating Agency:
01 Jan 1825
Related Series:
CRO76 John Montagu Manuscript07 Feb 184217 Oct 1842
Series notes:
Most of the correspondence bound in this volume relates to the circumstances attending and following the suspension by Lieutenant-Governor Franklin of John Montagu, Colonial Secretary; however there is also a copy of a long letter (February, 1841) to the Secretary of State from H. G. Jones relating to his suspension.

The papers were apparently brought together and preserved by the Private Secretary, Henslowe, partly in vindication of his own part in the Montagu case. There are originals and copies of letters, many of a semi-personal nature, between Henslowe and Franklin and Henslowe and Montagu, Montagu and Franklin, the Chief Police Magistrate and others. Many of the documents are drafts, with emendations by the Private Secretary and the Lieutenant-Governor, of key papers in the controversy, such as summaries of correspondence and conversations, and memoranda for the presentation to the Secretary of State of the offcial side of the case.

For an account of the Montagu case, see Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Sir John Franklin in Tasmania, 1837-1843, Melbourne, 1949.

These records are part of the holdings of the Tasmanian Archives
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