Mainly Draper's annotated correspondence with many descendants of the Boone and Bryan families. Writers frequently had other surnames, including Baber, Boggs, Brooks, Cockrill, Grant, Hays, Jones, Pennington, Scholl, and Willcoxson (Wilcoxson). Many other letters pertain to Matthias Van Bibber and other members of the Van Bibber (Vanbibber) family known to the Boones in Virginia and Missouri; included are accounts of the naming of Van Bibber's Rock on the Kanawha River (West Virginia). Two of Boone's companions, John Stewart (Stuart) and Alexander McKinney, are the subjects of one letter apiece.

Opening the volume are a copy of an undated petition to Congress for a grant of lands in Missouri for Boone and a memorial to the Kentucky legislature soliciting support for Boone's petition; the latter is an original but incomplete undated draft from the papers of John Coburn, United States judge in Missouri, who assisted Boone in preparation of his claims. Also found in this volume are nearly illegible copies of a Boone letter and petition (1782) from the Virginia archives; copies of documents (1788) concerning a land sale by Boone and others to Simon Kenton; copies of Daniel Boone obituaries; and a printed form giving dates of birth for Jesse B. Boone, his wife Chloe, and their children, and for the children of Wynkoop Warner and his wife Minerva.