Documents received and generated by the governor and the governor's staff. Files include correspondence, reports, memos, and speeches. Arranged chronologically and then alphabetically by topic, agency, or individual. Indexed by folder headings in MARYLAND INDEXES Governors Record, Index series [MSA S1476]; For 1939-1940 see General File, Index series [MSA S1052]. For 1848-1918 see Miscellaneous Papers series [MSA S1274]; for 1715-1847 see MARYLAND STATE PAPERS Series A series [MSA S1004]. For 1967-1985 see [MSA T849], not fully processed; for 1986-1993 see General File, Schaefer series [MSA S1283]. For more recent administrations search under Agency for Governor and see especially [MSA T3610]t.

The first policy regarding the transfer of State Agency records to the Archives, apart from those required to be transferred by the original law creating the Hall of Records, was formulated by Dr. Morris Radoff in 1946-1947. It concerned Governors' Records. See the policy statement, an article on the first transfer under the policy, and the excerpt from the Annual Report for 1947, and current guidelines for those records.