Draper Manuscripts: Tecumseh Papers, 1811-1931

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Series: 13 YY (Volume 13)
Scope and Content Note: A volume filled principally with early periodical articles, 1830-1850, about Tecumseh and a play entitled Tecumseh or, The Battle of the Thames (New York, 1836) by William Emmons. A few printed letters (1881) by A.H. Edwards describe early days at Fort Dearborn. Several newspaper clippings (1910, 1931) were added long after Draper's death and pertain to descendants of James Galloway in Xenia, Ohio; to a monument erected to Tecumseh in Xenia; and to Thomas W. Alford, great grandson of Tecumseh.