Rules for dealing with Maps in charge of the Registry and Record Department
Scope & Content:
A Library Committee Minute, approved Council, 2nd December 1885. Single sheet listing 5 points covering definitions of "Stock" and "Ledger" the recording of stock in the ledger, and the annual budget for purchasing maps.
Preliminary Report on the Records of the India Office - Part I. - Documents appertaining to the Correspondence Branch of the Office
Scope & Content:
Report approved Library Committee 18th November 1884, approved Council 2nd December 1884. The report is an 'endeavour to show what records are know to exist in this [India] Office, and how far they may be considered complete or otherwise'. The earliest records mentioned date from 1596.
'Report on the "Old Records" of the India Office' by George Birdwood
Scope & Content:
Report by George Birdwood with a map inside rear cover: 'A Map of the Early European Agencies, Factories & Settlements in the Indian Seas'. Volume is missing its cover, and some pages, starting on page 17 to page 92. Originally a stitched pamphlet; stitching is missing. The report notes the ...
Note attached to 'Report on "Old India Office Records"' by George Birdwood.
Scope & Content:
This note is 'on the Discovery of the Passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, and on the early Settlements of the European Nations in the Eastern seas'. London : Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, printers to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty. For Her Majesty's Stationary Off...
Press list of India Office Records from the earliest date to 1630, including also notices of all documents extant in India for the same period.
Scope & Content:
A numbered list of India Office Records identifying 2,636 items, principally correspondence, with an additional 79 from the Bombay Records recorded as being illegible. The earliest is dated 1498. Dated August 1891.
Press list of India Office Records from the earliest date to 1630
Scope & Content:
A numbered list of India Office Records identifying 2,582 items, principally correspondence. The earliest is dated 1498. London : Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.
An account of the construction of the Public Record Office, and the Means adopted for its security from Fire ; drawn up at the desire of the Right Honourable Sir George Jessel, Master of the Rolls
Scope & Content:
Five pages of notes describing the building's construction, with accompanying floor plans (Dangerfield Litho., London). The building plans are signed and dated 1814. Document is 'signed' by T. Duffus Hardy, Deputy Keeper of the Public Records.
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1814
Extent:
1 pamphlet (5 pages) and 1 sheet of floor plans (bound)