Series:
General Correspondence, Series a, B and Other.
Series Number:
Access:
Open
Start Date:
01 Jan 1822
End Date:
31 Dec 1970
Creating Agency:
| Lands and Surveys Department (TA69) | 01 Jan 1804 | 23 Dec 1970 |
Related Series:
| LSD421 Diagrams of Allotments in Launceston. | 01 Jan 1834 | 31 Dec 1834 |
| LSD84 Applications to Purchase Land under S 24 of the Waste Lands Act 1870. | 01 Dec 1870 | 31 Dec 1890 |
Controlling Series:
| AD921 Partial Index to General Correspondence. | 01 Jan 1940 | 31 Dec 1970 |
| LSD2 Registers of Correspondence, Series a. | 01 Jan 1826 | 31 Dec 1964 |
| LSD3 Indexes to General Correspondence, Series a. | 01 Jan 1826 | 31 Dec 1959 |
| LSD4 Register of Correspondence, Series B. | 01 Jan 1826 | 31 Dec 1836 |
| LSD5 Index to Registers of Correspondence, Series B. | 01 Jan 1826 | 31 Dec 1836 |
| LSD364 Betts and Hume Index | 01 Jan 1820 | 31 Dec 1918 |
How to Use:
The first 72 volumes (and a few subsequent) contain an index at the beginning of the volume. In some the index has been seperated by subject and arranged within the volume. The file number given in this index appears on the first page of the correspondence in the far top right hand corner of the page, though sometimes with a line through the number. Unfortunately other pagination in the volumes can be confusing.
In about 1914, Department officers made an attempt to re-arrange correspondence from 1826 to 1870 into broad subjects. As a consequence a reference in the registers (series LSD2 and LSD4) or indexes (series LSD3 and LSD5) may or may not guide you to the correct file in the correspondence. Also, as a result some of the early volumes in LSD1 contain much later correspondence, as recent as the first decades of the 20th century.
To assist, Archives staff have annoted some entries in the registers to indicate which volume in LSD1 now contains the file.
Series notes:
General correspondence of the Department.
The early part of this series (LSD1/1/1 to LSD1/1/124) is in no particular chronological order. It would appear the correspondence was kept loose as two sequences known as series A and series B. They were maintained in this order to correspond with the two registers, LSD2 for series A and LSD4 for series B.
The amount of correspondence for the period 1870 to 1887 is small. This is partly due to the Department removing records of applications under the Waste Lands Act 1870. These can now be found in series LSD84.
These records are part of the holdings of the Tasmanian Archives
System of Arrangement:
Alphabetically chiefly by the correspondent's name. Correspondence not filed by name is filed by location (eg. towns, districts, rivers, islands, etc.), position (eg. Director of Roads) or a wide variety of other subjects. Some correspondence has been re-arranged into broad subjects such as bridges, land grants, surveyors, roads, esplanades, purchase, rent, schools, timber, tramways, churches and glebes. These have been given their own file number sequence and are listed seperately with their own index.
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