Colonial Despatches

Manuscript images

Many thousands of page-images from a variety of years are available on this site, and we are adding more on a regular basis. These images have been generated from monochrome microfilms of the original documents, and vary in quality, but they may well be useful to readers. They should help to give a clearer picture of the original documents, showing how minutes and annotations were added drafts written, and so on. In addition, many documents which we have not transcribed are available in image form (attachments, enclosures and so on). You can browse the images sequentially on the Image Browser page. You will also see that many document transcriptions have a small manuscript image at the top right; this acts as a link to the page image of the first page of that document, and from there, you can browse forward or backward through the sequence. Transcriptions from 1846 through 1860 have links throughout the transcription, so you can jump directly to the relevant page if you want to examine the original text.

These are the image sets which are currently available:

• CO 305, Vol 1 (VI 1846-8 Despatches to London, Public Offices and Correspondence)
• CO 305, Vol 2 (VI 1849-50 Despatches to London, Public Offices and Correspondence)
• CO 305, Vol 3 (VI 1851-52 Despatches to London, Public Offices and Correspondence)
• CO 305, Vol 4 (VI 1853 Despatches to London, Public Offices and Correspondence)
• CO 305, Vol 5 (VI 1854 Despatches to London, Public Offices and Correspondence)
• CO 305, Vol 6 (VI 1855 Despatches to London, Public Offices and Correspondence)
• CO 305, Vol 7 (VI 1856 Despatches to London, Public Offices and Correspondence)
• CO 305, Vol 8 (VI 1857 Despatches to London, Public Offices and Correspondence)
• CO 305, Vol 9 (VI 1858 Despatches to London, Public Offices and Correspondence)
• CO 305, Vol 10 (VI 1859 Despatches to London)
• CO 305, Vol 11 (VI 1859 Despatches to London)
• CO 305, Vol 12 (VI 1859 Public Offices)
• CO 305, Vol 13 (VI 1859 Public Offices, Hudson's Bay Company, Individuals)
• CO 305, Vol 14 (VI 1860 Despatches to London)
• CO 305, Vol 15 (VI 1860 Public Offices and Miscellaneous)
• CO 305, Vol 16 (VI 1857-1860 Public Accounts)
• CO 305, Vol 17 (VI 1861 Despatches to London)
• CO 398, Vol 1 (BC 1858-1861 Correspondence: Letters from Secretary of State, Despatches)
• CO 6, Vol 25 (British North America 1858 offices: Admiralty, Board of Trade, Council, Emigration, Foreign)
• CO 6, Vol 26 (British North America 1858 offices: Law, House of Commons, Treasury, War, Miscellaneous)
• CO 6, Vol 27 (British North America 1858 offices: General, Individuals A-E)
• CO 6, Vol 28 (British North America 1858: Individuals F-M)
• CO 6, Vol 29 (British North America 1858: Individuals N-Z)
• CO 6, Vol 30 (British North America 1859: Offices: Hudson's Bay Company)
• CO 6, Vol 31 (British North America 1859: Individuals)
• CO 6, Vol 32 (British North America 1860: Public Offices and Individuals)
• RG7 G8C Vol 1 (VI 1849-58 Despatches from London)
• RG7 G8C Vol 2 (VI 1859-61 Despatches from London)
• RG7 G8C Vol 3 (VI 1862-63 Despatches from London)
• RG7 G8C Vol 6 (BC 1858 Despatches from London)
• RG7 G8C Vol 7 (BC 1859 Despatches from London Part 1)
• RG7 G8C Vol 8 (BC 1859 Despatches from London Part 2)
• RG7 G8C Vol 9 (BC 1860-61 Despatches from London)
• CO 410, Vol 1 (VI 1849-1864 Despatches from London)
• CO 60, Vol 1 (BC 1858 Despatches to London)
• CO 60, Vol 2 (BC 1858 Public Offices and Correspondence)
• CO 60, Vol 3 (BC 1858 Correspondence)
• CO 60, Vol 4 (BC 1859 Despatches to London)
• CO 60, Vol 5 (BC 1859 Despatches to London and Public Offices Part 1)
• CO 60, Vol 6 (BC 1859 Public Offices Part 2 and Miscellaneous)
• CO 60, Vol 7 (BC 1860 Despatches January to July)
• CO 60, Vol 8 (BC 1860 Despatches August to December)
• CO 60, Vol 9 (BC 1860 Public Offices and Miscellaneous)

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