Unregistered Letters and Telegrams Received
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for State of Virginia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for State of Virginia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869 / Series 4: Letters and Telegrams Received
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M1048, Subseries 4.2
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content: The unregistered letters and telegrams received, May 1865–January 1869, are arranged in two subseries. The first subseries, beginning on roll 36, consists of letters received from governmental and private offices or organizations, arranged alphabetically by office or organization of origin and thereunder chronologically. The offices or organizations include northern charitable societies, agencies of the Federal Government, and Bureau districts in Virginia. A complete list of these offices and organizations has been filmed immediately preceding these records. The second subseries, roll 40, consists of correspondence received from individuals, arranged alphabetically by surname and thereunder chronologically by date written. This subseries includes a number of letters of introduction, requests for restoration of property, and requisitions.