Box 2, Folder 6: Draft Biography of Increase Lapham

This folder contains a biographical essay on the life of Increase Lapham written by his daughter, Julia Alcott Lapham; as well as what appears to be an incomplete preface, and transcribed letters. The essay and transcriptions were created by Julia Lapham sometime after her father's death in 1875. The biographical essay provides and outline of Lapham's life, supported by excerpts of letters written by family, friends, and colleagues. The transcribed letters are loosely organized, following Julia Lapham's pagination. Page 30 is out of order, this has been retained as the page is pinned to the back of page 15 A. 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 [Juli