Series:
General Correspondence.
Series Number:
Access:
Open
Start Date:
01 Jan 1824
End Date:
31 Dec 1836
Creating Agency:
| Colonial Secretary's Office (1) (TA151) | 01 Jan 1825 | 31 Dec 1856 |
Related Series:
| CSO35 General Letterbooks. | 17 May 1824 | 16 Jun 1826 |
| CSO45 Letterbook of Correspondence addressed to the Manager, Van Diemens Land Company. | 06 Mar 1826 | 12 Jul 1828 |
| CSO38 Letterbook of Correspondence addressed to the Surveyor-General. | 04 May 1826 | 15 Dec 1828 |
| CSO40 Letterbook of Circulars sent to Departmental Officers. | 07 Dec 1827 | 14 Jul 1835 |
| CSO47 Letterbook concerning Roads and Bridges, Mainly addressed to the Inspector of Roads. | 14 Dec 1827 | 21 Mar 1835 |
| CBE1 Minutes. | 17 Feb 1830 | 16 Sep 1833 |
| CSO91 Letterbook of Correspondence addressed to Masters and Surgeons-Superintendent of Convict Ships. | 03 Aug 1829 | 05 Apr 1841 |
| CSO39 Letterbook of Correspondence addressed to the Colonial Architect. | 11 May 1826 | 30 Aug 1827 |
| CSO37 Letterbook of Correspondence addressed to the Lieutenant-Governor. | 07 May 1826 | 16 Jun 1832 |
| CSO44 Letterbook of Correspondence about Clerical and Educational Matters. | 29 Mar 1830 | 08 Jul 1841 |
| AF877 Disposal of Convicts in Hard Labour Gangs | 09 Jul 1833 | 31 Dec 1833 |
| CSO36 Letterbooks of Correspondence addressed to the Commandant, Launceston. | 04 May 1826 | 25 Jan 1841 |
| GO54 Letterbooks of Lieutenant-Governor's Memoranda addressed to the Colonial Secretary. | 26 Jun 1826 | 24 Jan 1837 |
| CSO85 Letterbook of Correspondence addressed to Rev. Philip Palmer, Rural Dean of Van Diemens Land | 27 Dec 1833 | 07 Mar 1838 |
| CSO90 "Miscellaneous" Letterbook. | 01 May 1826 | 05 Jun 1827 |
| GO55 Letterbook of Lieutenant-Governor's Correspondence addressed to Crown Law Offices. | 09 Nov 1827 | 09 Sep 1836 |
| CSO41 Letterbooks of Correspondence addressed to District Police Magistrates. | 03 Mar 1828 | 27 Jul 1840 |
| CSO84 Letterbook of Memoranda addressed to the Principal Superintendent of Convicts. | 25 Apr 1828 | 21 Sep 1829 |
| CSO88 Letterbook of Memoranda and Correspondenceaddressed to the Board of Assignment. | 01 Jul 1832 | 31 Dec 1836 |
| CSO42 Letterbook of Correspondence addressed to the Muster Master. | 30 Sep 1829 | 17 Nov 1836 |
| CSO43 Letterbook of Correspondence addressed to the Commandant, Macquarie Harbour. | 22 Jan 1830 | 10 Dec 1833 |
| CSO30 Transmission Registers of Papers sent to Departmental Officers. | 10 Aug 1834 | 27 Jul 1841 |
Controlling Series:
| CSO2 Registers to General Correspondence, Arthur Period | 01 Jan 1824 | 31 Dec 1836 |
| CSO3 Indexes to General Correspondence, Arthur Period | 01 Jan 1824 | 31 Dec 1836 |
| CSO4 Index to General Correspondence. | 01 Nov 1836 | 31 Jan 1837 |
How to Use:
Digital images of most of this series are available to view online by clicking on the item links below to get to the items details page. Copies may be made for private research/studybut any other use requires permission from the Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office.
Note that Volume CSO1/18/1 has been renumbered as CSO1/917, CSO1/122A is now CSO1/918 and CSO1/1259/1 is now CSO1/919.
Series notes:
This correspondence is chiefly of the period of the first Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land after it became an independent colony, Col. George Arthur; but many of the papers of his predecessor, Col. William Sorell, who had no Colonial Secretary, have been incorporated (i.e., registered) in the series, and many files date from at least as early as 1821, and sometimes earlier.
The files are almost exclusively of inward correspondence and internal memoranda, the substance of outgoing correspondence often being recorded on the reverse of the inward letter in either the Lieutenant-Governor's or the Colonial Secretary's hand.
These records are part of the holdings of the Tasmanian Archives
System of Arrangement:
Registration is by a simple single-number system, the one series of numbers (1-19184) running from the beginning of the period to the end. With few exceptions the files have been sewn (more or less contemporaneously) into volumes of from one to two inches thick, in numerical order. Each volume holds an average of about sixteen files, but some files were allowed to grow inordinately large without sub-division;;
Information Sources:
Guide to the Public Records of Tasmania, Section One, Colonial Secretary's Office by P R Eldershaw which can be viewed at https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3003663186/view;;
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