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Excerpt from The Draper Collection of Manuscripts Draper's notes, however, do not by any means all have the character of memoirs. He was a genuine historian, and there fore appreciated the difference in evidential value between recollections and contemporary records. It was his settled practice to examine all available records bearing upon his numerous special inquiries either before soliciting memoirs, in order to establish a foundation for his interviews, or after such interviews, by way of checking and supplementing the information they supplied. Thus Draper's notes, which fill a long series of volumes, are in large part transcripts, sum maries, or extracts from contemporaneous documents ex amined by him, such as printed accounts of important western men or historical episodes, letters, diaries, account books, sketch maps, reports - in a word, the types of material every true investigator accumulates when he designs to treat an im portant historical theme. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.