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

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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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