Summary heading
Series Note
Function and purpose
This series
of Thirty-Nine registers (Volumes) records details of letters outwards dealing
with postal services sent from various Post Offices within the larger
metropolitan area of Adelaide. The letters are listed alphabetically showing:
Name, No. of letter, Date of letter and Subject. The range of subject matter
includes appointments, memorials, Australasian Colonies and the Overland
Telegraph line.
The
original transfer of AP236/1 to the Commonwealth Archives Office on 18th
May 1964 consisted of Forty-Eight registers all described as "Registers -
Letters Outward”- 1871 to 1921.Reviews during 2002, 2004 and 2005 established
that not all the registers were “Letters Outwards”. Assessment of AP236/1 has
resulted in registers being converted and
arranged and described against relevant series, based on the content,
control and function of the records. Therefore the Forty-Eight registers are
now controlled by National Archives as:
Volume One -D952 - Outwards letter book “O.T.”
(Overland Telegraph) series (1871)
Volume Two - D948 - Index book for letters outwards
(1876 to 1877),
Volume Three - D949 - Outwards letter book “B” series
(1876 to 1877),
Volume Four - D951 - Outwards letter books, “I” series
(1873 to 1874)
Volumes Five to Seven - D950 - Outwards letter
books “A” series (1876 to 1879)
Volumes Eight to Forty-Six remain as AP236/1 - Indexes
- Letters Outward (1882 - 1915)
Volumes Forty-Seven and Forty-Eight- D5557- Outwards
letter books, chronological series (1916 - 1921)
Related legislation
Using the series
Language of material
Physical characteristics
Forty -six leather bound registers (volumes)
System of arrangement and control
Items: by volume number ( 8 to 46). Entries
chronological within alphabetical sequence.
Relationships with other records
Finding aids
Access conditions
Series history
Previously series contained forty-eight register
(volumes). After arrangement and description reduced to 39 volumes
Provenance
Immediate source of acquisition
Custodial history
Quantity in agency custody
Disposal history
Publication note
Additional information
End notes
Sources
AP236 Series file, Checklist and physical inspection
of records.