Notes, articles, and manuscripts on miscellaneous topics. Biographical materials discuss the Seneca chief Red Jacket; Simon Girty and his half-brother John Turner; Robert Stobo and Jacob Van Braam, British officers captured by the French in 1754 and accused of illicit communications with British white hostages in Quebec; and Thomas Morris, who in 1764 sought unsuccessfully to persuade the Indians of the Northwest to switch their allegiance from the French to the British. John Ingles's manuscripts, undated but perhaps written in the late 1830s, describe the settlement of his father and George Draper at Draper's Meadows (Virginia) about 1750, the raids on the settlement, the captivity of Mrs. William Ingles, and the murder of Thomas Ingles's family. Drafts of speeches and articles by Charles P. Avery concern the early history of central New York, both Indian and white, particularly in the Susquehanna Valley. The Black Hawk War (1832) is the subject of a transcript of a periodical article (1833). Manuscript reminiscences embodied in a long letter (1870) by Henry O'Rielly discuss his career as a journalist, promoter of canal transportation, and developer of a network of telegraph lines.

Interspersed are a few original manuscripts: a list of recruits (1762) received from William Fleming and signed by Adam Stephen; a letter of recommendation for Stobo (1763), written by Robert Stewart to Fleming; a letter (1764) by John Campbell to John Bradstreet mentioning the building of barracks and navigation difficulties at Detroit; lists of horses, cattle, and personal property stolen from the Shawnee Indians in Missouri, 1810-1825; and a summary list of livestock and tools to be furnished to them by terms of the treaty concluded in 1825.

A few engravings are scattered in printed articles. Among these are portraits of Red Jacket, a sketch of the medal given him in 1792 by President Washington, and a drawing of the monument erected over Red Jacket's grave in 1884 in Buffalo; a portrait of Ely S. Parker, Seneca sachem, engineer, and Civil War officer; and a sketch of the old fort at Lexington, Kentucky, in 1782.