Series: 4 Q (Volume 4)
Scope and Content Note: Four of Draper's notebooks bound together, containing drafts and summaries for letters he wrote in 1843; notes on correspondence and collecting activities in 1854 in which Benson J. Lossing was involved; notes on Draper's letters in 1862-1863; and plans for his projected but never achieved edition of articles on western themes written by William Darby (1775-1854) and first published in The Casket from 1829 to 1838.