Box 4, Folder 5: Miscellaneous Typewritten Letters

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Title: Box 4, Folder 5: Miscellaneous Typewritten Letters
Document Title: Box 4, Folder 5: Miscellaneous Typewritten Letters
Creator: Lapham, Increase Allen (1811-1875); Lapham, Julia Alcott
Folder Description: This folder contains a miscellaneous grouping of correspondence, diary entries, essays, and lectures written and received between 1836 and 1875. The contents discuss Increase Allen Lapham's daily life, family, and scientific research and are not arranged chronologically. The correspondence includes congratulations on Lapham's appointment of Chief Geologist for the Wisconsin Geological Survey and outrage at his subsequent removal from the project. The essays and lectures included in the folder are: "On the Relation of The Wisconsin Geological Survey to Agriculture", "Auroral Arch", "The Great Elephant Mound", "From the American Journal of Science, -New Haven, Conn. March or May, 1875.--p. 398 Geological Survey of Wisconsin", "Lecture Delivered Jan'y 23rd, 1840", "Wisconsin. Lecture Delivered in the Unitarian Church, Milwaukee, Feb. 4, 1848 Before the Milwaukee High School and Citizens" and "Lecture. Delivered January 16, 1851, Before the Young Men's Association and Citizens at Free Congregational Church, Milwaukee, by I. A. Lapham". Some of the correspondence in this folder is original, but much of the correspondence was transcribed by Lapham's daughter, Julia Alcott Lapham who 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: data & lists; fossils; geology; Indian mounds (effigy mounds); institutions & associations; law & legislation; meteors; Milwaukee (city); minerals; National Weather Service.; personal & family life; publications (Lapham's); Smithsonian Institution; surveys & surveying; weather & climate; Wisconsin Geological Survey.; Parry, Charles Christopher; Parks, F. G; Washburn, Cadwallader; Foster, John Wells; Winchell, Newton Horace; Hoy, Philo R.; Comstock, Cyrus B.; Safford, Truman H.; Foster, John G.; Winchell, Newton Horace; Humphrey, Andrew A.; Irving, Roland; Shepard, A. K.; Brown, John C.; Dawson, George W.; Patterson, H. N.; Tenney, Horace A.; Chamberlin, Thomas Chrowder; Lapham, Seneca George; Hoyt, John Wesley; Daniells, William Willard; Strong, Moses; Caverno, Charles; Riley, Charles Valentine; Marcy, Oliver; Dana, James Dwight; Pickard, J. C.; Case, F. W.; White, Canvass A.
Year: 1836; 1840; 1848; 1851; 1854; 1857; 1858; 1861; 1862; 1865; 1873; 1874; 1875
Language: English
Source: Increase A. Lapham Papers, 1825-1930 (Wis Mss DB, Box 4, Folder 5: Miscellaneous Typewritten Letters , Box 4, Folder 5); WIHV95-A24
Type: Text
Publisher-Electronic: Wisconsin Historical Society
Publication Date-Electronic: 2015
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Digital Format: XML
Digital Identifier: WisMssDB_B4F5-000
Repository: Wisconsin Historical Society Digital Collections
Source: From: Box 4, Folder 5: Miscellaneous Typewritten Letters

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