Letters Received
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content: Records of the Superintendent of Education 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.M810, Series 6
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content: Archival materials
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content: The letters received consist of registered and unregistered series. The registered letters received, January–December 1868, are arranged alphabetically and thereunder chronologically by date of receipt; they constitute most of the incoming correspondence for that year.

The unregistered letters received, December 1865–July 1870, are arranged  chronologically by year, thereunder alphabetically by initial letter of the correspondent's surname, and thereunder chronologically by date of receipt. Both series include correspondence written to individuals other than the Superintendent of Education but which was forwarded to and retained by his office. Letters written by and subsequently returned to the Superintendent of Education are also included. Such letters have been filed alphabetically by the Superintendent's surname.