In the earlier years of this series, the communications are from various Departments; later they are chiefly from the Premier. For the most part the memoranda furnish the Governor with the information he needed to write his despatches; they therefore return despatches referred to Ministers, with comments; furnish information called for; or provide the Governor with the material with which to address the Secretary of State on matters initiated by the Government. Matters of the highest importance are dealt with and, since

many of these communications became enclosures in the Governor's despatches, the series forms an indispensable companion to the letterbooks of GO25, into which enclosures were often not copied. In most cases the memoranda from the Premier bear file numbers, so that the matters dealt with may easily be followed up in the correspondence records of the Premier's Department. Besides subjects bearing relation to the Governor's inward or outward despatches, some of these communications relate purely to internal questions, or to matters of intercolonial interest not referred to London. For the period 1882-1907 the registers of GO51 apply to this series, and some of the corresponding outward letters are registered in GO57 (1878-1902).

These records are part of the holdings of the Tasmanian Archives