Box 2, Folder 8: Typewritten Letters, 1829-1832

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Title: Box 2, Folder 8: Typewritten Letters, 1829-1832
Document Title: Box 2, Folder 8: Typewritten Letters, 1829-1832
Creator: Lapham, Julia Alcott
Folder Description: This folder contains chapters 1 and 2 of a rough draft biography of Increase Allen Lapham written by his daughter Julia Alcott Lapham after his death. The two chapters include correspondence and three drawings created by Increase Lapham. The writings are organized chronologically, with excerpts from Lapham's diaries and letters providing details. Julia Lapham began in the early 1870s to hand write and then type a chronology of her father's life titled "Autobiography". In the process she destroyed much of Increase Lapham's original correspondence. In the "Notes on Sources" section of the Lapham biography, Studying Wisconsin, the authors comment on the editing and destruction of the original correspondence: "Though she [Julia Lapham] apparently destroyed many original documents, enough remain that we can compare them to her typescript and see that her changes were several types. She corrected her father's spelling errors and punctuation. She omitted some family information that she considered too private. She included almost nothing about his financial or business dealings." Bergland, Martha, and Paul C. Hayes. "Notes on Sources." Studying Wisconsin The Life of Increase Lapham Early Chronicler of Plants, Rocks, Rivers, Mounds, and All Things Wisconsin. State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 2014. 383.
Subject: Railroads; Drawings (Lapham's); city; engineering; geography; geology; map-making; minerals; personal & family life; rivers; travels (Lapham's); weather & climate; shells; Silliman, Benjamin; Lapham, Darius; Lapham, Seneca; White, Canvass; Lapham, Rachel; Hildreth, Samuel Prescott
Date: 1829-1832
Language: English
Source: Increase A. Lapham Papers, 1825-1930 (Wis Mss DB, Typewritten Letters, 1829-1832, Box 2, Folder 8); WIHV95-A24
Type: Text
Publisher-Electronic: Wisconsin Historical Society
Publication Date-Electronic: 2015
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Digital Format: XML
Digital Identifier: WisMssDB_B2_F8-000
Repository: Wisconsin Historical Society Digital Collections
Source: From: Box 2, Folder 8: Typewritten Letters, 1829-1832

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