Introduction
Outward Despatch and Letter Books – B and G Series
From the 1840's until after World War II all outward despatches were copied into letter books.
The B series of volumes consist of thirty volumes and commence with Governor Moody. They cover the period 24 July 1841 to 31 December 1906.
The G series of volumes consist of twenty-nine volumes. Volumes G1 to G4 are duplicates of the early B series and cover the period 30 April 1842 to 11 November 1852. Volume G5 holds copies of enclosures for the period 26 November 1890 to 26 December 1903. Volumes G6 to G29 cover the period 22 August 1905 to 31 December 1947.
It should be noted that these volumes are scanned in the order they have been written and are not necessarily in date order and a number of the books have numbering errors. To reduce handling and unnecessary stress on the volumes blank pages have not been scanned and not all pages are legible either due to fading or damage.
NB: Work on scanning these volumes is ongoing.
Governor Moody 1842 to 1848 (B1 to B5, part B27 and B28)
B1 - Despatches to Secretary of State from Governor FI - Governor Moody - Part 1 - 24 July 1841 to 30 April 1842.pdf34.69 MB
B1 - Despatches to Secretary of State from Governor FI - Governor Moody - Part 2 - 28 May 1842 to 31 March 1843.pdf32.4 MB
B1 - Despatches to Secretary of State from Governor FI - Governor Moody - Part 3 - 8 April 1843 to 1 April 1844.pdf33.83 MB
B5 - Despatches to Secretary of State from Governor FI - Governor Moody - 25 February 1848 to 6 July 1848.pdf25.93 MB
B28 - Confidential Despatches to Secretary of State from Governor FI - Governor Moody - 26 November 1844 to 14 November 1846.pdf4.42 MB
Governor Rennie 1848 to 1855 (B6 to B9, part B27 and B28)
B6 - Despatches to Secretary of State from Governor FI - Governor Rennie - Part 1 - 21 February 1848 to 18 September 1848.pdf31.64 MB
B6 - Despatches to Secretary of State from Governor FI - Governor Rennie - Part 2 - 18 September 1848 to 25 December 1848.pdf32.48 MB
B6 - Despatches to Secretary of State from Governor FI - Governor Rennie - Part 3 - 5 January 1849 to 26 June 1849.pdf39.67 MB
B6 - Despatches to Secretary of State from Governor FI - Governor Rennie - Part 4 - 26 June 1849 to 1 September 1849.pdf26.69 MB
B7 - Despatches to Secretary of State from Governor FI - Governor Rennie - Part 1 - 1 September 1849 to 17 November 1849.pdf36.81 MB
B7 - Despatches to Secretary of State from Governor FI - Governor Rennie - Part 2 - 21 November 1849 to 31 May 1850.pdf35.51 MB
B7 - Despatches to Secretary of State from Governor FI - Governor Rennie - Part 3 - 4 June 1850 to 20 February 1851.pdf34.34 MB
B7 - Despatches to Secretary of State from Governor FI - Governor Rennie - Part 4 - 21 February 1851 to 30 September 1851.pdf35.25 MB
B9 - Despatches to Secretary of State from Governor FI - Governor Rennie - 6 July 1854 to 2 November 1855.pdf19.33 MB
B28 - Confidential Despatches to Secretary of State from Governor FI - Governor Rennie - 5 July 1848 to 15 June 1849.pdf9.06 MB
Governor Moore 1855 to 1862 (B10 to B12, part B27 and B28)
B12 - Despatches to Secretary of State from Governor FI - Governor Moore - 7 September 1861 to 6 November 1862.pdf36.28 MB
B28 - Confidential Despatches to Secretary of State from Governor FI - Governor Moore - 5 September 1859 to 17 September 1861.pdf22.63 MB
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