Box 3, Folder 6: Typewritten Letters, 1849-1851

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Title: Box 3, Folder 6: Typewritten Letters, 1849-1851
Document Title: Box 3, Folder 6: Typewritten Letters, 1849-1851
Creator: Lapham, Increase Allen, 1811-1875; Lapham, Julia Alcott
Folder Description: Transcribed (by Julia Lapham) correspondence, lectures, notes, and papers of or with Increase Allen Lapham. Many pertain to botany, but a few discuss issues of geology, meteorology, and history. The documents in this folder include: Chapter 23; Chapter 24; Chapter 25; Second Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Cambridge, Mass. August 1849. The Third Paper was Read by Prof. Asa Gray as Follows, Plants of Wisconsin; Geological notes of a Tour to the Dells, Oct. 22nd to Nov. 1st, 1849. I. A. Lapham, accompanied by Samuel Sercomb and Henry O. Hubbard; Of the Historical Society of Wisconsin; Wisconsin, Her Topographical Features and General Adaptation for Agriculture. For N. W. Journal Science and Education; Milwaukee Female Seminary, May 3rd, 1853, I. A. Lapham, President; Lecture, Delivered January 16, 1851, before the Young Men's Association and Citizens at Free Congregational Church, Milwaukee. 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: geology, Indian mounds; American Antiquarian Society; Aztalan; geography; graphs; grasses; institutions & associations; lakes; Milwaukee (city); Native Americans; personal & family life; plants; shells; Smithsonian Institution; travels (Lapham's); University of Wisconsin; weather & climate; Hislop, Thomas; Lapham, Ann Marie Alcott; Taylor, Stephan; Doty, James Duane; Haven, Samuel F.; Hall, James; Henry, Joseph; Lathrop, John Hiram; Ingham, Albert C.; Foreman, Edward; Root, Eleazer; Jackson, Charles T.; Gray, Asa; Reichenbach, Heinrich Gustav; Whittlesey, Charles; Desor, Pierre Jean �douard; Guest, William E.; Brayton, James C.; Sartwell, Henry Parker; Morton, Samuel George; Tenney, Horace A.; Hoy, Philo R.; Randall, Alexander; Lapham, Darius; Lapham, William; Gibbs, R. W.; Hyer, George; Irwin, David
Date: 1849; 1850; 1851
Language: English
Source: Increase A. Lapham Papers, 1825-1930 (Wis Mss DB, Typewritten Letters, 1849-1851, Box 3, Folder 5); WIHV95-A24
Type: Text
Publisher-Electronic: Wisconsin Historical Society
Publication Date-Electronic: 2015
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Digital Identifier: WisMssDB_B3_F6-000
Repository: Wisconsin Historical Society Digital Collections
Source: From: Box 3, Folder 6: Typewritten Letters, 1849-1851

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