NRS-15281 | Outwards correspondence

Full description

These are manuscript copies of outwards letters from Charles Cowper, Chairman of the Sydney Tramroad and Railway Company Provisional Committee (later the Sydney Railway Company) regarding the establishment and operations of the Committee and the Company. The loose pages appear to have been originally part of a letterbook and some contain a page number in the top right hand corner. The first page is not numbered but the following fourteen double-sided pages are numbered five to thirty-one. The remaining pages are not numbered. The letters are not in chronological order.

The pages from the letterbook also include another series - a daily record of disbursements paid by the Committee and Company between 24 November 1848 and 22 July 1850.

Custody History

From 1955 until 2000 the State Rail Authority of New South Wales maintained an ‘in house archives’ consisting of the archival records of the Authority, its predecessor agencies and the private railway companies taken over by the government. The date ranges of the records were from 1849 until 2000. When the decision was made to close the ‘State Rail Archives’ the parts of the collection that were required as State archives were transferred to the State Records Authority of NSW. Those record series were incorporated into the State Records series system of archives control and were re-numbered.

This series was formerly part of the State Rail Archives collection where it was identified as series R39. It may have been viewed in the State Rail Archives as series R39 and could have been previously cited as such in notes by researchers at State Rail Archives or in publications or unpublished works.