A volume containing two sections:
1) Primarily incoming Draper correspondence, 1885-1890, and miscellaneous rough notes. Most of these papers deal with the life of Peter S. Ney.
2) Original documents by Marshal Michel Ney, Peter S. Ney, and Michael Rudolph. Marshal Ney's papers, 1799-1806, include three orders and one military letter written in French. Three letters, 1784, 1792-1793, comprise Michael Rudolph's papers. The two later items were addressed to George M. Bedinger and discussed western campaigns against the Indians and life in the United States Army. One (1792) bears an extensive annotation about Rudolph by Bedinger. Papers of Peter S. Ney are much more numerous. They include inscriptions on title pages to books, arithmetic problems, penmanship exercises, signed award of merit certificates for his pupils, a notebook containing his stenographic or shorthand system, a tuition schedule for his school in Catawba Springs, North Carolina, in 1841-1842, and annotated pages from a History of Scotland (1830) by Sir Walter Scott.
A few engraved portraits of Marshal Ney open the section of original manuscripts, and some newspaper clippings are scattered through both portions of the volume.
