Draper's correspondence, mainly in the 1870s, with descendants and relatives of some of Sumter's associates. Filling the first half of the volume are letters discussing the lives of Anthony Hampton and members of his family: his sons Wade, Preston, Henry, John Edward, and Richard and his daughter Elizabeth Hampton Harrison and her husband James Harrison. Also discussed is the Revolutionary service of John Hampton's Negro slave Plymouth.

Letters in the latter half of the volume contain biographical and genealogical information and traditions about other persons and families: Abraham (Abram) Buford and his brother Thomas; James Caldwell; Robert Crawford and his brother James; Michael Dickson and his sons Hugh, James, John, and Samuel; Samuel Earle; William Hagins and his sons John, Joseph, and William; David Hopkins; Frederick Kimball (Kimbell, Kimble, Kimbrel); James Lyles; Robert Maxwell; James Mayson; Alexander Moore; Charles S. Myddelton and his brother William; William Polk; and Samuel Tate. Filed with the Myddelton family letters is one discussing Arthur Middleton, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and his ancestry. Several letters contain references to Loyalists, particularly Christian Huck (Huyck), and John Robinson and his sons John Samuel, and William. A few of the letters discuss specific military events in 1780, including the battles of Huck's Defeat, Blackstocks, and Fish Dam Ford, and the location of Cornwallis's camp near Camp Creek, South Carolina. Some of the Crawford letters contain data on the relationship between the Crawford family and Andrew Jackson. They are accompanied by transcripts of three letters written by Jackson (1828, 1829, 1836) made from originals in possession (1874) of George McC. Witherspoon.