This index to the Records of the Office of Indian Affairs: Registers of Letters Received, 1824-1880 [also known as, Correspondence of the Office of Indian Affairs (Central Office) and Related Records] collection provides the dates each reel covers. Government Information MAY NOT have all of these reels. The record in the library catalog describes the extent of our holdings. For help, or to make an appointment to view a reel, email rad@colorado.edu.
These are registers for the records filmed as microfilm publication M234. Each letter includes the name of the writer; the date the letter was written; the date it was received, beginning in April 1834; the place where it was written; a summary of its contents; the jurisdiction or other heading under which the letter was filed; and beginning in July 1838, the file number assigned to each letter upon its receipt. Each volume is divided into alphabetical sections; the letters "i" and "j" were combined for registering and filing purposes. The registers contain some cross references to enclosures and to letters registered under a name different from the expected one.
The contents of these volumes have not been subjected to review for the purpose of detecting and noting textual discrepancies or illegibilities, though such a review may be possible at a later date. All notations and numbers which have been added to these documents were placed there prior to their transfer from the State Department. Contemporaneous penciled notations appearing at the top of most of the letters refer to the action taken at the State Department. Other notations, made more recently, specify the relationship between covering letters and inclosures where the latter are present. Folio numbers have been added on the recto pages, but it should be noted that items of printed material have their own pagination and are given but one number in the folio series. The high serial numbers which appear are those which particular documents bear in Parker's Calendar.
The records reproduced in this microcopy are part of a body of records in the National Archives designated as Record Group 59, General Records of the Department of State.
The spreadsheet attached below contains a reel-by-reel description of the complete collection.