Letters Sent
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content: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of South 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.M869, Series 1
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content: Archival materials
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content: The six volumes of letters sent, June 13, 1865–January 22, 1870, consist of fair copies of letters, telegrams, and reports sent mainly by the Assistant Commissioner and assistant adjutants. The communications in these volumes are generally arranged in chronological order. A name index is at the beginning of each volume except the sixth (14). The National Archives has prepared a name index for Volume 6 (14), and it is filmed before the volume on Roll 2.

In the left margin of the pages of the volumes is the name of the person or title of the officer to whom the letter was sent. There are also notations in the form of fractions in the margins of Volumes 1 (9) and 3 (11). The numerator is the number of the page in that volume on which there is a preceding letter to the same person, and the denominator is the number of the page on which there is a subsequent letter to the same officer. The subject of the letter is also found in the margin.

Filmed after the volumes are six unbound copies of letters sent, October 30, 1865–May 5, 1868, addressed to Bureau headquarters at Washington, D. C., and not duplicated in the volumes of letters sent. Also reproduced here is an enclosure to a letter sent that is in Volume 2 (10), November 20, 1865, Document Number 317.