Acquisition Information

The State Historical Society of Wisconsin purchased the 55 Civil War letters in this collection on November, 1960. The Civil War diaries, donated by Gerald Galpin of Appleton on July 20, 1965, were subsequently added to the collection. This material was previously catalogued as Wis Mss 93S. Then on August 30, 1971, Professor Alfred Galpin of Madison joined to these materials the Lovecraft-Galpin correspondence and publications. Music scores in the collection were transferred to the University of Wisconsin's Mills Music Library Description in 1989 at the request of Mrs. Isabella Galpin.

Processing Information

Processed by Eleanor Niermann, October 15, 1971.