Letters and Telegrams Received
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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: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M979, Subseries 1.4
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content: The letters and telegrams received by the Assistant Commissioner are in two series: one registered, one unregistered.

The registered correspondence is arranged in three subseries. Correspondence received primarily from subordinate officers for the period May 1865–December 1866 was registered and then bound in three volumes [Vols. 1 (5), 2 (6), and 3 (7)] that are arranged generally chronologically. A name index is in Volume 3 (7) for the period October 22–December 31, 1866. The second subseries contains registered correspondence from Bureau headquarters in Washington for the period December 9, 1865–November 12, 1866. This correspondence was bound in Volume 4 (8), which is arranged generally chronologically. Before December 9, 1865, letters and telegrams from the Bureau were bound in the first volume of the previous subseries. The majority of correspondence is to be found in the third–the unbound–subseries, June 1865–April 1869. It is arranged in accordance with the order of entries in the register. For the period June 1865–December 1866, the communications in this subseries appear to consist mainly of reports or letters relating to policy or administrative matters; thereafter, communications concern daily routine matters. Many of the 1867–69 communications have another number in addition to the entry number by which they are now filed. The registers are also annotated with these additional "File Numbers," but they are of no apparent significance.