Office of the Secretary of State: Correspondence relating to transcription of colonial records
Part of: Massachusetts Office of the Secretary of State
Correspondence relating to transcription of colonial records, 1845-1852.
1 document box
Call no.: SC1/44X
Call no.: SC1/44X
Scope and Content: Pursuant to Resolves 1845, c 118 and Resolves 1846, c 35, the governor was authorized to have certain documents copied from the British State Paper Office (after 1848, the State Paper Dept. of the Public Record Office), for which task Robert Lemon was commissioned by Secretary of the Commonwealth John Gorham Palfrey. Correspondence between them concerns transcription work and includes lists of documents in the State Paper Office and sample abstracts of documents.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Formerly part of: Miscellaneous collection, box 54
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