Box 5, Folder 3: Julia Lapham Correspondence 1905-1909

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM

S.P. LANGLEY Secretary, Smithsonian Institution RICHARD RATHBUN Assistant Secretary, in charge of U.S. National Museum

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 3d, 1905.

Miss Julia A. Lapham, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.

Dear Madam: Your prompt reply to my request for a photograph of your father is duly received, and I thank you very much for the same.

I will have the photograph of 1866 copied, and return the three to you as soon as possible.

Thanking you for your courtesy, I am,

Yours very truly,

Prof. Merrill

Head Curator, Department of Geology.

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM

S.P. LANGLEY Secretary, Smithsonian Institution RICHARD RATHBUN Assistant Secretary, in charge of U.S. National Museum

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 18, 1905.

Miss Julia A. Lapham, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.

Dear Madam:

I am returning herewith the three photographs loaned by you on December 24th, having had copies made which will answer my purposes admirably.

I think I shall use the one taken in 1866 and reproduce it nearly the same size. We are going to make the experiment of printing these in the text rather than on plate paper, and I am not yet sure of my results. Will send you a copy of the paper, should everything turn out favorably.

Very truly yours,

Leo. P. Merill

Head Curator, Department of Geology.

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Wis Feb 6th 05

Dear Miss Lapham

The Free Press Historian comes out in the issue of yesterday, Sunday, in an other article relating to Milwaukee's easily [?] designated as "How Pioneers Reached Milwaukee in early days."

Speaks of it as a little Trading Port in 1832 +33, of James S. Buck" story of her coming in 1834. About [?] tells the story of her taming in the fall of 1833, bring the first white man after [?]. Horace [Char?], Deacon Samuel Brown and William Burteck came together from [?] in the winter of 1834, joining Rev. H. Walker who had built a house the year before.

Saying no words relating to the coming of those who settled on the west side, unless Deacon Brown and William Burteck came west sides. When at in a [?] issue of how Press it was stated that Kelbourn was laying and a rival town on the west side in 1824, but the history [of] in yesterday issue makes no mention of his being a pioneer.

Have you not some memoranda made by your father giving dates of arrival of Mr. Kelbourn, himself, Garret [Hute?) and others who come