Draper's bibliographical and chronological notes on Brant's career, 1784-1793, accompanied by correspondence, clippings, and other documentation. Major topics considered are: the Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1784); Brant's second trip to England (1785-1786); his mission to the Indian tribes in the South (1787); his efforts (1792-1793) to negotiate a permanent Indian-white boundary and a peace treaty between the Indians and the United States; his relations with other Indian leaders such as Red Jacket and Cornplanter; his concept and promotion of Indian confederacy; and his residency near the Grand River, Ontario.

Original documents include: a list (1788) of appointments and pensions in the Indian Department of Canada signed by John Johnson and Lord Dorchester (formerly Sir Guy Carleton); two letters (September 10, 1792 and January 23, 1793) by Brant on treaty negotiations and on the land claims of the children of Sir William Johnson and Molly Brant, both addressed to George Clinton; and a record of births and marriages of three of Sir William's daughters, compiled and signed (1796) by one of them, Magdalene Johnson Ferguson. There are also copies of several other letters by Brant, all of which Draper located in private ownership. Draper copied extensively not only from eighteenth-century newspapers, but also from a volume of letters describing a tour of Upper and Lower Canada in 1792 and 1793 by an unnamed Englishman, a volume loaned to Draper by Alpheus Todd, the librarian of the Library of Parliament in Canada.

Newspaper clippings (1850) include another diary in 1793 written by Joshua Hathaway describing his trip from Vermont to the Indian Council at Niagara by way of Montreal and Kingston. A small portrait sketch of Arthur St. Clair illustrates another clipping.