Registers of Letters Received
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content: Records of the Superintendent of Education 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.M810, Series 5
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content: Archival materials
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content: Registers of letters received are also typical of 19th–century recordkeeping practices. In addition to a summary of the contents of the incoming letter, the registers usually include such identifying
information as the name and sometimes the office of the writer, the date of receipt, the date of the communication, the place from which it was written, and the entry number assigned.

The entries in the register of letters received, January 1868–January 1869, are arranged alphabetically by surname of correspondent and thereunder chronologically. There is also a name index in the volume. Marginal notations are to letters sent and endorsements. The letters entered in the register are filmed as a unit before the unregistered series of letters received.