Letters Sent
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Alabama, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1870
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M809, Series 1
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content: Archival materials
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content: The five volumes of letters sent, July 1865–July 1870, are arranged chronologically and each volume contains a name index. The volumes also contain copies of annual reports, 1867–69, sent by the Assistant Commissioner to Commissioner Howard. The 1866 annual report is among the series of reports described below. Monthly reports from the Assistant Commissioner to the Commissioner from January 1868 to January 1869 are also copied in the volumes. In addition to these reports, volume 5 also contains reports from the Superintendent of Education both to the General Superintendent of Schools and to the Commissioner in Washington.