Series: Brady and Wetzel Papers: 13 E
Scope and Content Note: Samuel J. Rea's scrapbook, 1855, containing his twenty-six newspaper articles published in the Beaver (Pennsylvania) Argus. Three constituted a biographical series on Andrew and Adam Poe. A much longer series of twenty-three chapters or installments, entitled “Incidents in the Early History of the West,” was devoted to the history from 1679 to 1806 of the Beaver River region embracing parts of Allegheny, Beaver, and Washington counties, Pennsylvania. Interposed between portions of chapter 20 is a section of Rea's manuscript notes about Brady, including copies of letters and statements Rea had acquired from Draper, Thomas Nicholson, John Shane, William Wilkins, and a few published sources. Annotations by Draper accompany a few of the newspaper clippings. This volume was also purchased by Draper from Rea in 1856.