Draper correspondence, mainly 1856-1868, and clippings concerning events in the lives of Brady, Lewis and Martin Wetzel, and some of their contemporaries. Substantial groups of letters center about several specific topics: the attack (1782) on Rice's Fort (Pennsylvania); Gabriel, Isaac, and Joseph Walker and the Indian captivity (1782) of Gabriel's children, James, Martha, and Mary; Jacob Crow and his family, with emphasis on the death of John Crow in an Indian ambush (1789) and the massacre of three of the Crow girls (1791); Robert Wallace and the capture and killing of his wife Jane McCoy and several of their children (no date given); Seneca and Chippewa Indian customs and other conditions experienced by settlers near Hudson, Ohio (1800-1810).

Several letters and clippings concern place names associated with Brady. Among the many other persons and families mentioned in the papers are: Absolom Baird; William Castleman; Cornplanter; James Downing, Sr.; James Ewing; Albert Gray; James Logan; James McEntire and his nephew John McEntire; William McGregor; Isaac Miller; Richard Patch; Adam and Andrew Poe; James Ramsey; James, John, and Samuel Sproat; and Lewis Tucker. One letter by Draper (1862) is written on a pictorial letterhead giving a panoramic view of Madison, Wisconsin.