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REEL 1-39 Series 1, General Correspondence, 1841-1891
President Johnson's personal non-official correspondence consisting primarily of letters received.
Arranged chronologically and within days arranged alphabetically.
REEL 1 1841, Oct. 4-1861, Feb. 13
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REEL 2 1861, Feb. 14-1861, Mar. 28
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REEL 3 1861, Mar. 29-1861
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REEL 4 1862, Jan. 1-1862, May 13
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REEL 5 1862, May 14-1862, Aug. 12
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REEL 6 1862, Aug. 13-1863, Feb. 9
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REEL 7 1863, Feb. 10-1863, Sept. 15
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REEL 8 1863, Sept. 16-1864, Jan. 6
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REEL 9 1864, Jan. 7-1864, May 27
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REEL 10 1864, May 28-1864, Aug. 19
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REEL 11 1864, Aug. 20-1864, Nov. 9
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REEL 12 1864, Nov. 10-1865, Jan. 30
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REEL 13 1865, Jan. 31-1865, Apr. 26
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REEL 14 1865, Apr. 27-1865, June 1
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REEL 15 1865, June 2-1865, June 29
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REEL 16 1865, June 30-1865, Aug. 2
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REEL 17 1865, Aug. 3-1865, Sept. 14
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REEL 18 1865, Sept. 15-1865, Nov.
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REEL 19 1865, Nov. 8-1866, Jan. 13
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REEL 20 1866, Jan. 14-1866, Feb. 26
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REEL 21 1866, Feb. 26-1866, Apr. 2
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REEL 22 1866, Apr. 3-1866, June 16
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REEL 23 1866, June 18-1866, Aug. 25
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REEL 24 1866, Aug. 26-1866, Oct. 19
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REEL 25 1866, Oct. 20-1867, Jan. 14
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REEL 26 1867, Jan. 15-1867, Apr. 20
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REEL 27 1867, Apr. 21-1867, July 20
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REEL 28 1867, July 21-1867, Sept. 20
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REEL 29 1867, Sept. 21-1867, Nov. 28
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REEL 30 1867, Nov. 29-1868, Jan. 20
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REEL 31 1868, Jan. 21-1868, Mar. 10
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REEL 32 1868, Mar. 11-1868, May 29
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REEL 33 1868, May 30-1868, July 22
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REEL 34 1868, July 23-1868, Oct. 6
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REEL 35 1868, Oct. 7-1869, Jan. 16
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REEL 36 1869, Jan. 17-1869, Oct. 13
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REEL 37 1869, Oct. 16-1874, Mar. 31
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REEL 38 1874, Apr. 4-1875, Feb. 9
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REEL 39 1875, Feb. 10-1891, Nov. 23 , undated
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REEL 39-42 Series 2, Additional Correspondence, 1814-1900
Correspondence similar to that in series 1.
Arranged roughly in chronological order by day and in alphabetical order within the day. Contemporary indexes for volumes 5-10 are at the end of the series.
REEL 39 1814, Dec. 12-1861, Aug. 24
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REEL 40 1861, Aug. 26-1866, Feb. 20
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REEL 41 1866, Feb. 21-1868, July 10
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REEL 42 1868, July-1900 , and undated
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REEL 42-43 Series 3, Letterbooks, 1864-1869
REEL 42-43 Subseries 3A, 1865-1869
Six volumes of letter press copies of letters and telegrams signed by Johnson or his secretaries. Four volumes contain correspondence in a chronological sequence for the period May 29, 1865 to Feb. 17, 1869; Volume V includes additional correspondence for the period Sept. 20, 1865 to Oct. 3, 1867 and Volume VI for the period Jan. 16, 1865 to Feb. 17, 1869. Some of the letters are partially or wholly illegible. Fair copies of most of these letters may be found in Subseries B.
Within volumes the arrangement is chronological.
REEL 42 Vols. 1-3, [1865-1867]
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REEL 42 Vol. 4, 1867, Aug. 14-1868, Sept. 19
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REEL 43 Vol. 4, 1868, Sept. 21-1869, Feb. 27
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REEL 43 Vols. 5 & 6, [1865-1869]
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REEL 43 Subseries 3B, 1864-1869
Three volumes of fair copies of letters and telegrams, chiefly copies from the Letter Press volumes in Subseries A.
Some fair copies are not represented in the Letter Press volumes, and arrangement does not consistently follow that of the Letter Press volumes. Copies of most of the items in Letter Press Volumes I and V are in Fair Copy Volume I, and Letter Press Volumes III and IV are in Fair Copy Volume II, but Fair Copy volumes may include letters from three different Letter Press volumes. Fair Copy Volume III, pages 38-263, includes copies of communications between General George Gordon Meade and officers in his command, May 3-June 25, 1864. Volumes I and II include indexes and there is a separate bound volume index to Volume I.
REEL 43 Vols. 1-3, [1864-1869]
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REEL 44-45 Series 4, Indexes to Letters Received and Record Book, 1862-1869
REEL 44 Subseries 4A, 1865-1869
Indexes of letters received by Johnson.
Entries include name of writer, purport, date received, agency to which the letter was referred and date of referral, and are entered alphabetically in each volume by the first letter of surname of writer. The volumes are arranged in rough chronological order by the earliest date in each volume. Volumes 1 and 2 overlap in dates.
REEL 44 Vols. 1-4 [1865-1867]
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REEL 44 Vol. 5, A-K [1867-1869]
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REEL 45 Vol. 5, L-Z [1867-1869]
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REEL 45 Subseries 4B, 1862
Index to a missing "record book" of letters sent by Johnson while military governor of Tennessee. File drafts of some of these letters are found in Series 1.
REEL 45 [1862]
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REEL 45 Subseries 4C, 1862-1863
"Record Book" or day book containing chiefly digest of letters and activities of Johnson while military governor of Tennessee, entered in chronological order. A few transcripts of letters are entered in this volume.
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