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)

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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 Out of date and offensive language may be present.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

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Youthful compositions by Draper in the middle 1830s. The volumes exemplify Draper's budding interest in colonial and Revolutionary history and his very early attempts to collect and to write biography. These volumes are not indexed nor are their contents described in detail.

Use Restrictions

PHOTOCOPY RESTRICTION: Photocopying originals is not permitted; researchers may copy from the microfilm available in the Library.

Draper Mss P	Series: 1 P (Volume 1) Scope and Content Note: A notebook of brief biographical and historical entries entitled “Biographical Sketches of the Eminent Men of Massachusetts and Sketches of Other Incidents, No. 2,” written by Draper in 1835. No volume of this nature entitled “No. 1” is in the collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
	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.	⇧