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I think I wrote you several months since that the Rev. Mr. Roe of Durham Hill, Waukesha Co - (I think I give his name correctly from memory) had donated to our society a collection of War Autographs, in the possession of Maps. [McSutters?] - I [decided?] you to get them for the the Society. I hope you have them in safe keeping.
Perhaps you can secure from the author, Rev. Mr. Love, a copy of his work for our Society. I hear it hihly spoken of. Shd. you meet him at any time, please express to him the gratification it wd. give the Society if he wd. consent to donate...

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...to our library whatever orginal materials he collected for his History, for preservaion in our Manuscript Department.
At our meeting the other evening we voted to accept the offer by Mrs. Otto [Fawk?] of a collection of some 3,000 vols. in [Holland?] - her deceased father's Library. Many, nearly all are in Latin, German, & French, yet they will prove a valuable addition.

Very truly yours,
Lyman C. Draper

I regret to learn that Gen. W.R. [illegible] is quite ill this Winter. I fear we shall see his face no more.
L.C.D.