Identity area
Reference code
CO 417
Title
Colonial Office: High Commission for South Africa, Original Correspondence
Date(s)
- 1884-1925 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
716
Context area
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
This series contains correspondence relating to the High Commission territories of Basutoland, the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland, and to those neighbours with which the High Commissioner conducted relations - chiefly German South-West Africa, Portuguese East Africa, the Union of South Africa and its predecessors, and the British South Africa Company as administrator of Rhodesia.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
The National Archives >> Records of the Colonial Office, Commonwealth and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices, Empire Marketing Board, and related bodies >> Correspondence with the colonies, entry books and registers of correspondence
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
English
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
volume(s)
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
{{data source}} The National Archives Discovery
Alternative identifier(s)
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- British South Africa Company (Subject)
Genre access points
Description control area
Description identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
- Latin