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Draper-Rice family. Papers, 1745-1881.

Title: Papers, 1745-1881.

This collection contains business and family correspondence, diaries, legal papers, deeds, wills, account books, court records, and miscellaneous poetry. The collection includes two boxes of family correspondence. There is correspondence between and among Sophia Amelia Draper White and her parents, as well as her sisters, Emeline Draper Rice, Julia Ann Draper Lazelle, and Lucy Watson Draper Rider. There is correspondence between and among Sophia Amelia Draper White, her husband, Moores Mirick White, and their children, Lucy D. White ( - ) and Albert M. White ( - ), as well as correspondence between Moores Mirick White and his brother, Cheney White ( - ). There is also family correspondence between and among Emeline Draper Rice, her husband, William Rice (1803-1882), and their three children, William Ellis Rice (1833-1919), James Draper Rice (1832- ) and Lucy W. Rice ( - ). There are also two folders of miscellaneous family letters from various other relatives. The collection also includes legal papers, deeds of land in Spencer, the wills of James Draper (1747-1825) and James Draper, Jr., and business correspondence of James Draper, Jr., and Moores Mirick White. There is a diary of a trip through New York state, a sermon, a phrenological analysis of Lucy Watson Draper Rider, and miscellaneous poetry. There are account books and court docket books of James Draper, Jr., as well as diaries and memo books. There is also an account book, an autograph book, and a mathematics workbook of Sophia Amelia Draper White. Finally there is an account book of the Spencer Social Library from 1811 to 1833.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes.10 v. ; octavo.8 v. ; folio.

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