Letter Sent
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Tennessee, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M999, Series 4
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content: Archival materials
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content: The first half of each of the two volumes of fair copies of letters sent, January 1, 1867–December 30, 1868, contains copies of letters sent to all correspondents except General Howard and his staff. The letters in each half of both volumes are arranged and numbered in chronological order. There is a name index to volume 2; volume 1 was originally unindexed, but the National Archives and Records Services (NARS) staff has provided a name index that has been films immediately preceding the volume. Fair copies are handwritten duplicates of the originals, usually clear and easy to read. The letters in the first half of the two volumes were sent to the Superintendent of Education, subassistant commissioners, agents, military commanders, teachers, and others. Numbers at the end of the body of each letters probably refer to pages in press copybooks that cannot now be located. Numbers at the end of the letters sent to General Howard and his staff refer to the pages in the volumes of press copies of letters sent to General Howard and staff.