Endorsements Sent
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content: Records of the Education Division of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1871
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M803, Series 2
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content: Archival materials
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content: Often instead of dispatching a letter in reply to a letter received, the incoming letter was endorsed. This meant that the reply or forwarding statement was written on the incoming letter, which was either returned to the sender or forwarded to another office. These replies or statements were copied into endorsement books, with a summary of the incoming letter on which the endorsement was written. 

The volume of endorsements sent by the Education Division is dated June 13, 1867–September 1, 1870. The endorsements are arranged in chronological order by date the endorsement was sent. The volume has no index. 

From June 13, 1867, through April 21, 1869, the name of the writer of the incoming letter is in the left margin of the endorsement page. Beginning on August 14, 1869, cross–reference notations of either of two types occur at irregular intervals: "E B Vol. 1 #20," or "P E on page 29." Both references indicate that preceding or subsequent endorsements to the same correspondent are elsewhere in the same volume. "E B" means "endorsement book" and "P E" means "previous endorsement." The numerical notation refers to the page in the volume on which there is an additional endorsement.