Collections - State Historical Society of Wisconsin . ials for theearly history of Wisconsin, the busy corresponding secre-tary traveled thousands of miles, wrote thousands of let-ters, and interviewed hundreds of individuals. Each pa-per in the ten volumes was carefully edited and annotatedby this untiring worker, who brought to bear upon everyimportant point a wealth of correlative illustration orneeded correction. These volumes, a storehouse of originaldata bearing upon the history of our state, are enough ofthemselves fully to establish his reputation as an historicalspecialist. Their inca
Collections - State Historical Society of Wisconsin . ials for theearly history of Wisconsin, the busy corresponding secre-tary traveled thousands of miles, wrote thousands of let-ters, and interviewed hundreds of individuals. Each pa-per in the ten volumes was carefully edited and annotatedby this untiring worker, who brought to bear upon everyimportant point a wealth of correlative illustration orneeded correction. These volumes, a storehouse of originaldata bearing upon the history of our state, are enough ofthemselves fully to establish his reputation as an historicalspecialist. Their incalculable value to western historianshas been frequently attested by the best of authority —Bancroft, Sparks, Parkman, Shea, Lossing, and others oflesser note, having frequently complimented Dr. Draperupon their excellence and practical importance, and em-phasized the debt which students of American history willalways owe to him for them. Recognizing that his physical vigor was waning, yev asambitious to complete his greater works as in his earlier. LYMAN C. DRAPER. From Faulting; James R. Stuart, in (lallery of State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
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