The Preston and Virginia Papers of the Draper Collection of Manuscripts (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Mitford, Bertram Society Of Wisconsin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 144005374X ISBN 13: 9781440053740

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2010

Synopsis

PREFATORY NOTE. Students of American history require no introduction, at this late day, to the Draper Collection of Manuscripts in the Wisconsin State Historical Library. For many years they have been constantly drawn upon by historical investigators. Around them as a nucleus has beendeveloped a great historical library, manuscript and printed, to which all serious investigators of the frontier phase of American history must ultimately resort. Many years ago the late superintendent of the Society, Dr. E, G. Thwaites, published a descriptive list of its manuscript collection. The present volume marks the first step toward the publication of a detailed calendar of the Draper Manuscripts. In determining the contents of the volumes of the forthcoming series it has been deemed best to conform to the scheme of classification adopted for the original manuscripts. The present volume calendars the Preston and the Virginia series of manuscripts. The fonner comprise six and the latter sixteen of the four hundred and sixty-nine bound volumes in the Draper Collection. A "brief description of the contents of the two series may be found on pages 60-64 and 91-98 of the 1906 edition of the Descriptive List of Manuscript Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, * * * edited by Reuben G. Thwaites. The marginal pressmark indicates the location of the original document in the Draper Collection. The number before the letters shows in which volume of the series the document occurs, the letters designate the series, while the number following the letters indicates the page or pages of the volume occupied by the document. To illustrate, in the case of the first document calendared the pressmark 16ZZ1-35 means that the document is found in the Virginia Series, volume xvi, pages 1-35. The work of calendaring the volume has been performed by Miss Mabel Clare Weaks, chief of the

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Excerpt from The Preston and Virginia Papers of the Draper Collection of Manuscripts, Vol. 1 The Preston and Virginia Papers of the Draper Collection of Manuscripts was written by Wisconsin. State Historical Society. Library in 1915. This is a 362 page book, containing 123164 words and 8 pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 144005374X
• ISBN 13: 9781440053740
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368