Mainly Draper miscellaneous correspondence, 1849-1887, in chronological arrangement. Most of the letters concern Draper's search for descendants of New Yorkers who had participated in the Revolution and who had known Brant, and there are numerous examples of Draper's use of the questionnaire as a research tool. Although many persons, places, battles, and skirmishes are mentioned, references frequently have little substance.

There is some data on: Amos Draper; the Draper family of Hopedale, Massachusetts, descended from James Draper (d. 1678); John Harper; the captivity of George House and David Schuyler; Horatio Jones, Jane McCrea, and her brother John; Charles Nukerck; John Poppino and his sons Daniel and William; James Rogers; Benjamin Shoemaker and his son Elijah; and Benjamin Vail. A letter (1878) by A.G. Ellis contains brief recollections and comments about Eleazer Williams, the Oneida who claimed to be the “lost Dauphin.” Preceding the correspondence are copies of birth and baptismal records, 1766-1791, for children of Henry Eckler; and a few notes on eighteenth-century Indian affairs, on Brant, and on the battle of Wyoming, all taken from published sources.

A few Kentucky letters (1847 and undated) addressed to Lewis Collins appear to have been bound into this volume by mistake.