Series: 2 P-3 P (Volumes 2-3)
Scope and Content Note: Twenty-one notebooks bound into two volumes entitled “Random Biographical Sketches,” most of which Draper copied or abstracted from newspaper obituaries and periodical articles about 1835-1836. Most of the subjects were clergymen, missionaries, educators, and military and naval officers from eastern and New England states. A few women are included. Volume 3 P contains sketches of a few westerners on whom Draper later focused research and collecting activity: Samuel Brady, Philip Doddridge, William Hull, Samuel Mason, and David Williamson. The sketch of Williamson was excerpted from Alexander Withers's Chronicles of Border Warfare, a revision of which Draper undertook late in his life.
Note: See Draper Mss U: Frontier Wars Papers, 1754-1885.