Box 2, Folder 8: Typewritten Letters, 1829-1832
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- 1829-1832
- 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 consi
- Creator
Lapham, Julia Alcott
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- Wisconsin Historical Society
- Subjects
- 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 - Type
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- Language
- English
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- Chicago citation style
- Lapham, Julia Alcott. Box 2, Folder 8: Typewritten Letters, 1829-1832. 1829-1832. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll7/id/3771. (Accessed April 18, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Lapham, Julia Alcott, (1829-1832) Box 2, Folder 8: Typewritten Letters, 1829-1832. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll7/id/3771
- MLA citation style
- Lapham, Julia Alcott. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll7/id/3771>.