Letters Sent
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Texas Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M821, Series 1
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content: Archival materials
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content: The two volumes of letters sent, September 8, 1865–May 8, 1869, are arranged chronologically, and each volume contains a name index. In addition to outgoing letters, these volumes include copies of telegrams and reports sent by the Assistant Commissioner to Commissioner Howard. Among the latter are annual reports dated November 20, 1867, and October 20, 1868. Upon occasion, circulars and circular letters were also transcribed. Some letters, generally relating to appointments, bear the marginal notation "Filed in T." This means that the original letter had been endorsed back to the Assistant Commissioner from the Commissioner's office and was then registered and filed under "T" for Texas among the registered letters received.