Three notebooks designated by Draper as “D,” “E,” and “F,” bound together and primarily containing interview notes, 1841-1844, recorded in Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee. Most pertain to border affairs between 1770 and 1795. Among the principal events and participants discussed are: the settlement of Bryan's Station; the siege of Buchanan's Station; Daniel Boone; William Campbell; John Casey and his son William; the Cherokee War in 1776; William Christian; George Rogers Clark; Benjamin Cleveland; John Donelson; the Tennessee Cherokee chief Doublehead; the captivity of Mrs. Polly English; the Harpe brothers and Samuel Mason; the Island Flats battle; the King's Mountain battle; Maldin's Station; John Montgomery; the Nickajack campaign; the Point Pleasant battle; the Chickasaw Indian attack on the Renfroe and Turpin families at Battle Creek; James Robertson; Griffith Rutherford; Arthur St. Clair's defeat; Charles Scott; John Tipton; and John and Valentine Sevier.

One of Draper's informants, Hugh F. Bell, recalled experiences in hunting buffalo, elk, and bear in Kentucky in the early 1790s and gave instructions for cooking beaver tail, wild turkey, and other game and also for preparing a bearskin coat. There are also a few excepts from Jared Sparks's, The Writings of George Washington on Adam Stephen in 1754 and copies of Isaac Shelby-John Sevier correspondence, 1810-1814, and a few stanzas of two songs: one on the battle of Point Pleasant, the other on St. Clair's defeat. Draper indexed each notebook individually (pages 165-171, 337-343, and 533-536).