You can find out about the Draper collection at familysearch.org then go to family history library catalog then do a author seach (just type in Draper) when it comes up highlight the author, Lyman Copeland Draper, go to view film notes at the top right hand corner. There are about 147 rolls of film in the Draper Collection at the FHC in Salt Lake. You can order in a film to come to the nearest Family History Center for $3.25 for 6 week loan. A Daniels ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edgar A. Howard" <swvaroot@earthlink.net> To: <SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 4:27 PM Subject: [SW_VA] Draper Collection: Calendar of TN and King's Mtn papers > Volks, > > Anyone heard of the subject docs? These are the well > known Draper Collection. Vol 3, 1929 pub Hist. Society of > Wis. One page mentions Michael Fleenor. That's my > interest. Anyone know where I could get a copy? > -eddie > > > > . . . there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, > the messager of Satan to buffet me, > lest I should be exalted above measure. > - 2 Corinthians 12:7 > > > ==== SW_VA Mailing List ==== > #2 A large database of SURNAMES and the researcher's email address can > be found at http://www.fortunecity.com/millennium/quarrybank/194/swabc.htm > You may have your SURNAMES included by emailing them to FRED @ > <ohhenry@bigfoot.com> and NOT to the sysop/owner. >

The following webpage has information on the collection and it states that the microfilm is also available at the following Virginia Locations; http://www.shsw.wisc.edu/military/draper/index.html Virginia: Virginia State Archives (Richmond); Virginia State Library (Richmond); Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Blacksburg); University of Virginia (Charlottesville); Washington and Lee University (Lexington); College of William and Mary (Williamsburg). I imagine that you could get these through interlibrary loan The following site at Rootsweb also has some letters sent to Draper http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/special/draper/ You also mentioned the calendars and they are available from; Calendars All are available in hard copy from McDowell Publications, 11129 Pleasant Ridge Road, Utica, Ky. 42376, (502) 275-4075, and on microfiche from Chadwyck-Healey. Calendar of the George Rogers Clark Papers (1979). Calendar of the Frontier Wars Papers (1977). Calendar of the Kentucky Papers (1925). Calendar of the Tennessee and King's Mountain Papers (1929). Calendar of the Preston and Virginia Papers (1915). Calendar of the David Shepard Papers (1979) in same volume as Calendar of the Frontier Wars Papers. Calendar of the South Carolina Papers (1979) in same volume as Calendar of the Frontier Wars Papers. Calendar of South Carolina in the Revolution Miscellanies (1979) in same volume as Calendar of the Frontier Wars Papers. Calendar of the Thomas Sumter Papers (1979). Tami Ramsey