Registers of Letters Received
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content: Records of the Superintendent  of Education for the State of Texas 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.M822, Series 2
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content: Archival materials
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content: The entries in the two volumes of registers of letters received, November 1866–December 1870, are generally arranged by time period, thereunder alphabetically by the initial letter of the correspondent's surname, and thereunder chronologically by date of receipt. Volume 2 (3) has a name index. NARA prepared a name index to volume 1 (14) that has been filmed first. Since the pages in volume 1 (14) are unnumbered, the index references are to entry numbers. 

Some inconsistencies in arrangement should be noted. In volume 1 (14) entries within alphabetical headings are frequently not in strict chronological sequence by date of receipt. Some entry numbers in both volumes are repeated twice in succession. NARA added [No. 1] and [No. 2] beside the appropriate entries in the registers and to the file citations on the corresponding letters to distinguish between the duplicated numbers. Some of the entries in volume 1 (14) were inadvertently left unnumbered. NARA supplied the missing numbers in brackets where they would normally appear. In the second register the number of pages allotted to alphabetical headings proved insufficient in several instances and the entries were continued elsewhere in the volume. NARA filmed the entries in correct sequence. 

Both volumes contain marginal references to related letters sent and registered letters received that are similar to those in the volumes of letters sent. However, some citations in volume 1 (14) appear to refer to a volume (or Volumes) of letters sent that are no longer among the records of the Superintendent of Education. Other entries in volume 1 (14) bear the notation "Ex.," meaning that the document filed among the registered letters received is an extract of the original manuscript. 

Some correspondence entered in the registers is no longer to be found among the series of registered letters received. The missing letters may have been forwarded to Bureau headquarters in Washington or to subordinate offices in Texas. NARS has placed an asterisk (*) in the register near the writer's name for each letter that is still in the series of registered letters received.