Registers of Letters Received — Correspondence

Source catalog description

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Registers of letters received are also typical of 19th–century recordkeeping practices. In addition to a summary of the contents of the incoming letter, the registers usually include such identifying information as the name and sometimes the office of the writer, the date of receipt, the date of the communication, the place from which it was written, and the entry number assigned at the time of receipt. The three volumes of registers of letters received are arranged by time period. The entries in the registers, August 1865–May 1870, are arranged alphabetically by initial letter or surname or office of correspondent and thereunder chronologically. The first two registers contain separate numerical sequences for each year within each alphabetical division. There is only one numerical sequence in the third register for each division.

Collection

Records of the Assistant Commissioner and Subordinate Field Offices for the State of Florida, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872

Archival grouping

Records of the Assistant Commissioner and Subordinate Field Offices for the State of Florida, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872 / Series 1: Office of Assistant Commissioner / 1.1: Correspondence

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