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work_b34uk64ij5hm3hyh2dek5zfbtm	Josephine Harper	Lyman C. Draper and Early American Archives	1952	8	.pdf	application/pdf	3214	190	59	1 Letter dated April 23, 1861, Draper-Wisconsin Historical Society Correspondence. Before he became in 1854 the first director of the Society, a position to which he devoted most of his time and energy until his retirement 32 years later, he had acquired the most significant portions of his collection, including nearly all of the original records In the Draper Collection, therefore, are manuscripts, usually military in nature, that might perhaps have been found in State and National archives if more such These include, among the papers of William Preston, the correspondence, muster rolls, receipts for pay and provisions, and courtmartial records for the militia of Augusta County, Virginia, in the Most of the original manuscripts in the Draper Collection relate the remaining material he believed would probably comprise between 50 and 100 more volumes.11 When the State Historical Society received the collection 16 years later, very few additional manuscripts had been arranged or bound.	./cache/work_b34uk64ij5hm3hyh2dek5zfbtm.pdf	./txt/work_b34uk64ij5hm3hyh2dek5zfbtm.txt