Great Britain. Colonial Office - Emigration : Land and Emigration Commission records, 1837-1873 [CO 386]

PRO 7046-7054

fonds

Canberra : Australian Joint Copying Project, 1990

432926

Microfilm : PRO 7046-7054

a. 12,694 p. - 35 mm

Includes letters from the Emigration Commission and Mr Elliott, the Agent General for Emigration, as well as correspondence to the Colonial Office and to emigration agents in Australia, North America and Cape Town. The letters comment on such matters as colonisation and emigration, work opportunities and wages in Australia, employment of surgeons and land purchase, expenses of the emigration office

Original held by the National Archives (Great Britain), formerly the Public Record Office, London.

Filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project by the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales.
National Library of Australia holds the microfilm masters.
PRO 7046-7054.
Available for reference.
Public Record Office CO 386/1, 21-45, 122, 126, 131-133, 177, 189, 194.
Microfilm. Canberra, A.C.T. : National Library of Australia, 1990. 9 microfilm reels ; 35 mm
Microfilm copy of originals held by the Public Record Office, Ruskin Avenue, Kew, Surrey. TW9 4DU.
Descriptive list available (5pp.). See Micro. Ref. Bks. 1.1/6, Vol.3.
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