Mainly original letters, 1792-1811, with some related Draper materials, memoranda, transcripts, interview notes, and a few letters written to him. The majority of the papers pertain to events in Ohio and Kentucky in the 1792-1794 period. Letters in 1792 by St. Clair, Charles Scott, and James Wilkinson deal with the aftermath of St. Clair's defeat-prisoners and men missing in action, the recovery of military equipment left on the battlefield, lack of new supplies and pay for the soldiers, and the need for continued protection of the frontier. Two letters by Alexander S. Bullitt to William Fleming describe the political excitement aroused in Kentucky by the state constitutional convention and new state constitution. William Goforth wrote (1793) an account of the Indian attack in May 1792, on the embassy to the Indians on the Maumee led by Alexander Trueman, based on a report from William Smalley who had been captured and later escaped; both the original and an edited annotated copy by Samuel Drake are in this volume, and an additional copy is in 15 U. Preparations for Wayne's expedition and Isaac Shelby's suggestions for use of the Kentucky volunteers are discussed in 1793-1794 documents by Wayne, Scott, and Robert Todd. Copies of journals by Nathaniel Hart (1770-1844) and William Clark cover events during the July-October 1794 campaign by Wayne.

Later correspondence (1804, 1807) by Samuel Finley, John S. Gano, William Wells, Benjamin Whiteman, and the Indian chiefs Black Hoof, Black Snake, and Big Snake concern the murder of John Boyers, white fears that British agents were inciting the Indians, and routine militia administration; one letter was addressed to Governor Edward Tiffin of Ohio. With the 1807 correspondence are proceedings of a council with the Shawnee and Wyandot to investigate the killing of Boyers and resolutions of militia officers and citizens of Greene and Champaign counties in Ohio addressed to President Thomas Jefferson to urge frontier fortification and to condemn the attack of the Leopard on the Chesapeake .

Scattered through the volume are several letters, 1794-1811, written by James Robertson to John Sevier and Willie Blount, and one each by Blount and Return J. Meigs. All relate to Tennessee politics, to the state's problems with land claims, and to troubled relations with the Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Creek nations.

Two other letters in 1811 were authored by Charles Larrabee, lieutenant stationed in the United States Army in Vincennes. To his father Adam Larrabee he expressed his opinions on William Henry Harrison, the battle of Tippecanoe, and the rigors and dangers of Indian warfare.