Summary Information

Title: Draper Manuscripts: Draper's Biographical Sketches
Inclusive Dates: circa 1835-1836

Creator:

• Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891

Call Number: Draper Mss P

Quantity: 0.3 cubic feet (3 volumes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Notebooks compiled in Lyman Draper's youth primarily concerning clergymen, missionaries, educators, and military and naval officers. Most are from Massachusetts or other eastern states, but a few westerners are included. The sketches are wholly based on published sources.

Note:

Descriptions of the volumes are copied from the Guide to the Draper Manuscripts by Josephine Harper. Out of date and offensive language may be present.

This collection is also available as a microfilm publication.

Forms part of the Lyman Copeland Draper Manuscripts. The fifty series included in the Draper Manuscripts have been cataloged individually. See the Draper Manuscripts Overview, and the Guide to the Draper Manuscripts by Josephine Harper (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1983) for further information.

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Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-draper00p

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