Volume 1 (36)
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content: Records of the Superintendent of Education for the State of Tennessee, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1870
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content: Records of the Superintendent of Education for the State of Tennessee, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1870 / Series 1: Press Copies of Letters Sent
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content: The three volumes of press copies of miscellaneous letters sent, February 26–May 8, 1866, September 26, 1866–July 15, 1870, are arranged chronologically, and each volume contains a name index. Letters sent to Howard prior to July 19, 1869, are included in the first two volumes of miscellaneous letters sent described above.

Most of the letters sent are either to officials of aid societies in the North or teachers and other Bureau officials on the field. Letters to the aid societies generally sought additional money and personnel, whereas correspondence with teachers and district superintendents dealt primarily with routine matters of forms, salaries, and repairs to school buildings. Occasionally, however, the Superintendent wrote to reprimand a teacher regarding the performance of duties. More frequently, he wrote letters to editors or other influential persons praising the work of Bureau teachers. Also included among the letters sent are numerous letters of transmittal and one lengthy report of David Burt, dated May 8, 1867, on education at Knoxville.