Title: Draper Manuscripts: Paris Documents at Albany
Inclusive Dates: 1718-1765

Call Number: Draper Mss LL

Quantity: 0.2 cubic feet (1 volume)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Draper's copies, in French, of selected French documents from 1718-1765, on Indian and military events on the western frontiers. The transcripts used by Draper in 1848 had been made for the New York State Library in Albany, New York.

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 Out of date and offensive language may be present.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.

There is a restriction on use to this material; see the Administrative/Restriction Information portion of this finding aid for details.

Language: French

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-draper0ll

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Draper's copies of selected French documents, with scattered dates from 1718 to 1765, on Indian and military events on the western frontiers. The transcripts used by Draper in 1848 had been made for the New York State Library in Albany from originals in the Archives of France in Paris. A few years after his research in Albany, translations, not always accurate, were published in Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York, volumes IX and X (1858). Draper's selections, totaling forty-nine pages, now constitute only a memento of his research interests and method, for much more complete copies of these records are available elsewhere.

More complete copies of French colonial records are available at the Library and Archives Canada/Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, in Ottawa, Ontario.

Originals are in the Archives Nationales (Archives of France) in Paris, France.

Use Restrictions

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