Draper Manuscripts: Draper's Notes, 1841-1868

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Series: 11 S (Volume 11)
Scope and Content Note: Selections and extracts from correspondence and papers, 1780-1784, on military campaigns and Indian affairs in the Virginia archives, copied by Draper in Richmond in September 1860. Most of the letters were from incoming correspondence files of Governors Jefferson, Harrison, Thomas Nelson and Patrick Henry, and include letters from about three dozen prominent western military figures in Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee.