(Shane XIV and XVI). Two additional Shane notebooks of varied contents. Forming the heart of notebook XIV are notes on John Roche (d. 1849), professor at Transylvania University, and on the Roche family accompanied by a copy of Roche's diaries. Most descriptive is the diary he kept from July into September, 1824, during his trip from Maysville, Kentucky, to Boston, Massachusetts, by way of Baltimore, Philadelphia, eastern New York, and southern New England urban centers; he participated in ceremonies welcoming Lafayette in New York and Boston, spent a day in historic Deerfield, Massachusetts, and made visits to Williams, Amherst, Harvard, Brown, and Yale colleges - in all, a journey which inspired many observations on American religion, medicine, history, literature, and academic life including student unrest and rebellion. A few fragmentary pages contain Roche's diary entries on trips to Frankfort and Bardstown in 1825 and to Paris, Kentucky, in 1829.

Notebook XVI contains several groups of papers copied by Shane: correspondence, 1852--1853, of the Reverend John H. Brown, Lexington clergyman, relating to a religious controversy; then unpublished correspondence, 1779--1783, of John Floyd to William Preston, discussing Kentucky land settlement, trade, and prices; published letters, 1774-1780, by Floyd, Daniel Boone, and Nathaniel Hart Jr. relating particularly to the battle of Point Pleasant, the settlement of Powell's Valley, Richard Henderson's land offers, and the capture of the Boone and Callaway girls, all copied from the Frankfort Commonwealth; an index to persons mentioned in “Ledger A” of Richard Henderson and Company, with biographical notes on each provided by Nathaniel Hart Jr.; and biographical/genealogical memoranda about Robert M. Cunningham, (b. 1760), another Presbyterian minister who had served in Lexington. Originals of the 1774-1783 correspondence, published and unpublished, and of “Ledger A” were owned by William P. Hart and Nathaniel Hart Jr. of Woodford County, Kentucky when Shane made his copies.