A volume containing four sections of manuscripts grouped and labeled by Draper:

1) “McAfee Papers”: copies of McAfee family papers made by Draper during a visit in 1844 to the home of Kentucky historian, Robert B. McAfee (1784-1849), and Draper correspondence with McAfee relatives and associates in the 1840s and 1850s. Manuscripts copied include the journals of Robert (father of Robert B.) and James McAfee during their exploration of Kentucky in the summer (May-August) of 1773 and a journal kept in 1777 by John Cowan at Harrodsburg (two copies). Transcribed from writings of Robert B. McAfee were an eye-witness account of Clark's campaign of 1780 written in 1804, a biographical sketch of Anthony Crockett, a history of the settlements on the Salt River and establishment of New Providence Church (of which another copy by John D. Shane is in Volume 14 CC), and “Sketches of the First Settlement of Kentucky No. 2” published in 1841 in the Frankfort Kentucky Yeoman. Two receipts (1784-1785) signed by John Cowan accompany the transcript of his journal. Within the correspondence is information on Edward Worthington and also autobiographical remininscences-with mention of Black Hawk and Jefferson Davis-by Charles Graham. A clipped newspaper article concerns John Poage (b. 1775), his father George, and other members of the Poage-Pogue family in Kentucky.

2) “Renick Papers”: Draper's correspondence, 1867, 1890-1891, on the history of the Renick (Renwick) family of western Virginia. Letters pertain particularly to the Shawnee capture of Mrs. Robert Renick and her children about 176] and to one son Joshua, who remained with the Indians in Ohio and was the father of Captain Jim Logan, the Indian scout killed in American service in the War of 1812. One letter by Mark L. Spotts contrasted “the wonderful mail facilities” of 1890 with the service experienced in the early decades of the nineteenth century. A tiny photograph of Frank A. Renick is appended to one of his letters.

3) “Hardin Letters”: mainly Draper's correspondence, 1846, 1862-1863, with Mark Hardin, son of John Hardin (1755-1792), who was killed during federal negotiations with the Ohio Indians. From Mark Hardin, Draper obtained one original manuscript in John Hardin's handwriting, an undated (but probably circa 1780) list of distances on the Ohio River from Fort Pitt to “Greate Falls” (Louisville). There are also copies of three letters written by John at Fort Washington (Cincinnati, Ohio) to his wife Jane during his fatal trip.

4) “O'Fallon Papers”: less than a dozen original manuscripts, 1791-1793, by, to, or concerning Dr. James O'Fallon (d. 1793), physician in Louisville and husband of the youngest sister of George Rogers Clark. His papers include several business letters about tobacco transportation and deliveries which he wrote as agent for the South Carolina Yazoo Company, a proposal (1792) that he would serve as physician in Louisville if subscribers could raise a payment of not less than 150 pounds, a list of his patients and accounts (1792) for medical services rendered to the United States garrison at Fort Steuben, and two pages of family genealogy.