Letters Received
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Alabama, 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.M809, Series 7
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content: Archival materials
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content: Most of the letters received, 1865–70, are unregistered. They are arranged by year and thereunder alphabetically by the initial letter of the correspondent's surname. In addition to the general correspondence addressed to the Assistant Commissioner are letters written to individuals other than the Assistant Commissioner, but they were forwarded to and retained by him. The series also includes letters written by the Assistant Commissioner himself, which were endorsed and returned to his office; these letters have been filed according to the initial letter of the Assistant Commissioner's surname. Petitions from more than one person have been filed under "P." Most of the letters received by Assistant Commissioner Beecher after 1869 were addressed to him as Superintendent of Education, but they are included in this microfilm publication. Occasionally, the letters from the subassistant commissioners will resemble or contain reports on conditions in the subdistricts.