NRS-967 | Copies of letters sent re Immigration

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Copies of letters to surgeon superintendents of convict ships and surgeons of the Royal Navy; the Emigrants' Friend Society; the Board appointed for investigating claims to bounties for emigrants; to individuals; to the Superintendent of Emigration; the Emigration and later Immigration Agent and the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners.

By 1849 almost all the letters are addressed to the Agent for Immigration, and from June 1864 to February 1896 are continued in a separate series (NRS 969).

The letters to the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners are continued in NRS 968.

(4/3705-12; microfilm copy SR Reels 2857-2859). 8 vols.

Note:
This description is based on Concise Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales, 3rd Edition 2000.