The latter were difficult of discovery.  After an exhausting search, however, they were located on a top-most shelf, under the roof, in the file-room off from the gallery in the Patent Office building.  The bundles are small and each is bandaged as were the Indian Office files, originally.  The bandage, or wrapper, is labelled according to the contents.  For example, one bundle is labelled, “No. 1, 1849-1864, War;” another, “No. 24, 1852-1868, Exec.”  In the first are letters from the War Department, in the second, from the White House.  Some of the letters are from a

given department by reference only.  A great number of the bundles have nothing but a number to distinguish them,

No. 53, January to June, 1865. " 54, July to August, 1865. " 55, September to December, 1865. " 56, January to December, 1866.

United States of America.  Department of the Interior, Letter Books, “Records of Letters Sent.”

No. 3, July 22, 1857 to January 3, 1862. " 4, January 3, 1862 to June 30, 1864. " 5.  July 1, 1864 to December 12, 1865. " 6, December 14, 1865 to September 22, 1865.

——­ Department of the Interior, Letter Press Books, “Letters, Indian Affairs.”

No. 3, August 20, 1858 to March 5, 1862. " 4, March 5, 1862 to July 1, 1863. " 5.  July 1, 1863 to June 22, 1864. " 6, June 22, 1864 to April 11, 1865.

Department of the Interior, Register Books, “Register of Letters Received,” Corresponding to the two series of files, are two series of registers.  One series is a register of letters received from the Indian Office and each volume is labelled “Commissioner of Indian Affairs.”  The particular volume used for the present work covers the period from December 5, 1860 to January 6, 1866.  It will be found cited as “D,” that being a designation given to it by Mr. Rapp, the person at present in charge of the records.  The second series is a register of letters received from persons other than the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.  Each volume is labelled, “Indians.”

“Indians,” No. 3, January 8, 1856 to October 27, 1861.
‘’ 4, January 2, 1862 to December 27, 1865.

——­ Office of Indian Affairs, Consolidated Files.  During the last few years and since the time when most of this investigation was made, the various files of the Indian Office have been consolidated and, in many cases, hopelessly muddled.  It has been thought best to refer in the text, wherever possible, to the old separate files, inasmuch as all letter books and registers were kept with the separate filing in view.

——­ Office of Indian Affairs,

General Files.

Central Superintendency, boxes 1860-1862, 1863-1868; Southern Superintendency, boxes 1859-1862, 1863-1864, 1865, 1866; Cherokee, 1859-1865, 1865-1867, 1867-1869, 1869-1870; Chickasaw, 1854-1868; Choctaw, 1859-1866; Creek, 1860-1869; Delaware, 1855-1861, 1862-1866; Kansas, 1855-1862, 1863-1868; Kickapoo, 1855-1865; Kiowa, 1864-1868; Miscellaneous, 1858-1863, 1864-1867, 1868-1869; Osage River, 1855-1862, 1863-1867;