Draper Manuscripts: Draper's Notes, 1841-1868

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Series: 33 S (Volume 33)
Scope and Content Note

Four notebooks, “M,” “0,” “P,” and “Q,” bound together.

For notebook “M”, only Draper's index remains here, for the interview notes composing this segment were all transferred to other locations in Series C and Series J. All of notebooks “0” and “P” and a few pages in “Q” are filled with selections Draper copied from the Kentucky Gazette, 1787-1795. Most of notebook “Q” is filled with copies of manuscripts in possession of Nathaniel Hart of Woodford County, Kentucky. These include letters of John Floyd to William Preston, 1774-1783, extracts from a few letters, 1779-1781, of Thomas and Nathaniel Hart (1770-1844), selections from Nathaniel's journal during Wayne's campaign (1794), and copies of an address by Charles Scott (1812) and of a manuscript biographical sketch of William Preston by Francis Preston (1833). A few Kentucky interview notes, 1845, are also in this notebook. For the contents of notebooks “O,” “P,” and “Q” Draper made detailed indexes (pages 101-109, 199-213, and 371-387).