Scope and Content: The Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners and its predecessor to 1879 the Board of Harbor Commissioners had general care and supervision of harbors and tidewaters in the Commonwealth; from 1888 the later body was also responsible for great ponds, and, 1901-1914, for completion of a town boundary survey initially undertaken by the Topographical Survey Commission.  Correspondence was created to support these functions.
Arrangement: In four subseries: (1) Incoming correspondence, 1872-1874, 1886-1889, 1898-1902; arranged chronologically in reverse order (2) Incoming correspondence, 1897, 1898-1899, 1902-1903, 1906; arranged alphabetically by correspondent (3) Miscellaneous incoming letters, 1869-1905; arranged chronologically (4) Outgoing correspondence, 1894-1902, 1907-1915; arranged chronologically
Notes: Photographs accompanying letter dated Aug. 1906 (subseries (2): G-K) removed; see: Photographs of logging on the Connecticut River ((M-Ar)353X)
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