Letters Received
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content: Records of the Superintendent of Education for the State of North Carolina 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.M844, Series 4
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content: Archival materials
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content: The letters received consist of one registered and three unregistered series. There are approximately as many unregistered as registered letters received. The registered letters received, June 1867–June 1869, are arranged in the order in which the letters are entered in the registers. However, those entered in the first register, June–August 1867, were originally entered in chronological order without a number and later were given filing numbers similar to those of the other letters received. The letters entered in the first volume are arranged by the numbers, that is by initial letter for the surname of the writer, and thereunder chronologically. The file citation on the letters gives the letter of the alphabet under which the communication is registered, the entry number, the year, and the volume. 

The main series of unregistered letters, August 1865–August 1870, complements the registered letters. The letters are arranged by year, thereunder alphabetically by the first letter of the surname of the writer, and thereunder chronologically. Indexes for these have been supplied by the National Archives and are found at the beginning of each year.  

There are two special series of unregistered letters received. One is composed of letters originally addressed to the Superintendent of Education and of letters received by endorsement from the Commissioner, the Assistant Commissioners, or their staffs, March 1866–July 1870, and is arranged chronologically by date of the letter or the endorsement. Many of these letters are registered in the Assistant Commissioner's records and therefore contain a file number from the Assistant Commissioner's Office. A substantial number of them were originally written by the Superintendent of Education and were received back with an endorsement from the Assistant Commissioner or his adjutant.  

The other special series contain unregistered letters and communications received from George W. Balloch, the Chief Disbursing Officer of the Bureau at Washington, D. C., May 1869–August 1870. The letters are arranged chronologically.