Letters and Telegrams Sent
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Arkansas Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Arkansas Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869 / Series 1: General Records
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M979, Subseries 1.1
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content: The six volumes of letters and telegrams sent, June 1865–May 1869, are arranged in two parallel subseries and thereunder generally chronologically. Each volume contains a name index. Volume 1 (14), which constitutes the first subseries, consists of fair copies of letters sent to Commissioner Howard or his staff officers in Washington for the period 1865–69. Also in this volume are letters and telegrams to military commanders, a few to the Adjutant General of the Army, various military department commanders, neighboring Governors, and some to assistant commissioners in other States. The remaining five volumes, comprising the second subseries, contain press copies of letters and telegrams sent to subordinate officers and civilians.

Some letters, generally relating to appointments and resignations, bear the notation "Filed" followed by a number to indicate sequence. This indicated that the original letter had been endorsed back to the Assistant Commissioner from Commissioner Howard's office and then registered and filed separately. These letters have been filmed on Roll 20.

In the left margin of the pages of the first volume are names of persons to whom the letters or telegrams were sent and fractional notations. In the latter, the numerator is the number of the page in the volume on which there is a preceding letter or telegram to the same person, and the denominator is the number of the page containing the next subsequent letter or telegram to the same person.