Press Copies of Letters Sent
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content: Records of the Superintendent of Education for the State of Tennessee, 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.M1000, Series 1
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content: Archival materials
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content: The records of the Superintendent of Education include four volumes of letters sent: three volumes of press copies of miscellaneous letters sent and one volume of press copies of letters sent to General Howard and staff.

Press copies were made by moistening a piece of thin paper and pressing it on the original letter through the use of a press copying machine, which transferred some of the ink to the moistened paper. Because of the relative crudeness of this method, many of the press copies are difficult to read and some are virtually illegible.