Draper correspondence, 1862-1891, mainly incoming letters chronologically arranged. Some were written by members of the Brady and Wetzel families, but in content the majority pertain to other persons and families, including Absolom Baird; Henry Barber; Isaac Barker; John Boreman; Richard Brashear; John Brown (b. 1785); Jacob Byerly; John Crawford and his sons Jefferson, John Lynn, and William Jennings; the Crow family; Abram and John Cuppy; Israel Dodge; James and John Downing; John Edgar; Edward Evans; Johnathan [sic] Evans and his son Ephraim; Samuel Ewalt and his wife Anna; John Franklin (1749-1831) and his wives Lydia Doolittle and Abigail Bidlach and their children; Harmar Greathouse and his sons Daniel, Harmon, Isaac, and Jonathan; Peter Henry; William Ives (d. 1832), his wives Priscilla Israel, Drusilla Brady, and Sarah McCoy, and their descendants; Nicholas McIntyre and his sons Alexander, Isaac, James and John; Thomas Maddin and his son William Israel Maddin; Kinzie Polley; John Simrall (Sumrall); Philip Six (Sicks); Samuel Sprott; William Stoops, and the captivity of his wife Jenny and their son; Richard Taylor; James Wells (1748-1814) and his wife Rachel Brown; and Thomas Woolford (d. 1802).

A brief letter (June 1862) by Thomas Sully refers to his efforts to locate a portrait of Cornplanter, and a letter by Mrs. O.G. Foard contains anecdotes about Peter S. Ney. Printed newspaper articles include one on Joseph Worley, with mention of his brother Jacob and Lewis Wetzel; and another describing in romantic style the life of Lydia Boggs, who married first Moses Shepherd and later Daniel Cruger. Copies of several obituaries and references to the marriages of Susan Wetzel to Nathan Goodrich and of Christica Wetzel to Jacob Wolf are found in miscellaneous notes by Draper at the close of this volume.