Registered Letters Received
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Texas Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Texas Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869 / Series 4: Letters Received
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M821, Subseries 4.1
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content: Archival materials
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content: The registered letters received, February 1866–June 1869, are generally arranged in accordance with the order of entries in the register. However, some deviations from this arrangement have been necessitated by certain irregularities in registry and by the presence of consolidated files that have been left intact. As a result, letters filed under alphabetical divisions, particularly those entered in the first register, are often not in strict chronological sequence. A number of the letters were not originally received by the Assistant Commissioner but were referred to his office, frequently from the military commands in Texas and from Bureau headquarters in Washington. These letters contain the registry numbers and other identifying information recorded by the original office of receipt. In addition to letters, the registered series also includes telegrams and reports received from staff and field officers. The reports generally differ from those filed as separate series in that they pertain more to specific incidents than to situations over a given time period.