William Rudolph Smith Papers, 1837-1860
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Summary Information
Title: William Rudolph Smith Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1837-1860

Creator:
  • Smith, William Rudolph, 1787-1868
Call Number: Wis Mss CV

Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (1 archives box and 3 oversize volumes)

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:
Miscellaneous papers of soldier and historian Smith, including his journal of a trip from Pittsburgh to Madison, Wis., and the lead region in 1837; an autobiographical sketch; and a few articles on subjects of local interest. There are 3 volumes of his History of Wisconsin, of which volumes 1 and 3 were printed in 1854 and volume 2 never published. This unpublished volume is incomplete, containing only 30 pages of a history of Brown County, and was apparently designed to be the “descriptive” volume of the series.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-wis000cv
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Note

The journal was printed in the Wisconsin Magazine of History, 12:192-220, 300-321 (December 1928 and March 1929).

Contents List
Box   1
Autobiographical Sketch
Box   1
Journal and Miscellaneous Papers
History of Wisconsin
Box   1
Manuscripts
Volume   1
Volume I
Note: Manuscript completely published as Vol. I (printed). Some of the notes are duplicated in Vol. III (manuscript). There is also an unbound duplicate copy of this Vol. I (manuscript).
Volume   2
Volume II
Note: Manuscript. Incomplete. Not printed. Contains thirty pages on the history of Brown County. Apparently this is the beginning of the proposed “Descriptive” volume.
Volume   3
Volume III
Note: Manuscript completely published as Vol. III (printed), but chapters are in widely varying order from those in the manuscript volume. This Vol. III (manuscript) also contains a number of duplicates of documents in notes to Vol. I, and four articles not published (Nos. 32-34 and 39). Duplicates of these four articles are among the unbound papers in the Smith papers.