Mainly Draper correspondence concerning Boone and numerous contemporaries. Letters and notes contain data, often brief, on Samuel Bryant; Keziah Bukey; Benjamin Combs; William Goe and his descendants; Abraham and Isaac Hite; John Lewis (1678-1762) and his sons Andrew, Charles, Thomas, and William; Robert Pogue; John (Jack) Randolph; William Russell; John South and his sons Ben, John, and Samuel; and Isaac Williams. Letters by Mrs. Catharine G. Welch and William C. Reynolds refer to the marksmanship and other assistance rendered by Negro servants in skirmishes with the Indians.

The volume contains two original documents: an undated receipt and memorandum concerning a land survey and his surveyor's fee, written and signed by Daniel Boone; and a letter (1800) written by Alexander Welch to William Morris Sr. reporting the death of Thomas Lewis.