Endorsements Sent — Correspondence

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

Endorsements sent are characteristic of 19th–century recordkeeping practices. A reply to an incoming letter was frequently written on the letter itself or on a specially prepared wrapper. The reply, known as an endorsement, was then copied into an endorsement book, and the endorsed letter was returned to the sender or forwarded to another office. Endorsement books also usually include a summary of the incoming letter and, on occasion, previous endorsements that were recorded on it. The two volumes of endorsements sent, October 1866–June 1870, are arranged chronologically and contain a name index. They are not duplicates of the letters sent.

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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