Indexes to letters received - Destitute Poor Department, Destitute Persons' Department and Children's Wefare and Public Relief Department (GRG29/4)

Indexes give name of writer, number of file, date of letter, date of receipt of letter and subject of letter ie. "W. Holmes, 137, 7/3/1900, 9/3/1900, Maintenance of E.M. Howell's child; Remittance on account of".

Indexes contain references to destitute people who have NOT been admitted to the Destitute Asylum, the so called 'town cases'. As the Town Cases Registers are now missing, and as much of Destitute Board correspondence prior to 1921 is also missing, these indexes may be the only trace left of such people.

Volumes do not index the State Children's Department files, but there are many references to maintenance of children, and to letters from the State Children's Department regarding children.

7 volumes. Relates to GRG 29/3 and GRG 29/6. See also GRG 29/180.

With gaps 1873-1878.