Series: 12 BB (Volume 12)
Scope and Content Note: Mainly Draper correspondence, 1843-1891, on contemporaries and associates of Kenton, including notes on John Beck; Samuel Curtright; John Dowden; Jacob Drennon; the Edgington family; David Edie; Charles Fellenash; Fielding Figgins; John Fleming (of Kentucky); John Gunsaulus (also spelled Gunsoly and Kingsaully); the Leedom family; Joseph Leman; John Masterson, Sr.; Benjamin Massie; Alexander D. Orr; Josiah Osborne; George Stockton; John and Samuel Strode and Strode's Station, Kentucky; and Cornelius Washburn. Closing the volume is a group of printed periodical and newspaper articles about Kenton; one (from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February 1864) is copiously illustrated with drawings and portraits depicting Kenton's career and some of his contemporaries.