Mainly correspondence in the 1870s between Draper and descendants of Sumter's associates. Although many persons and places are mentioned incidentally, substantial information-much of it genealogical-may be found on the following individuals and families: William Blackstock; Robert Campbell; Hicks Chappell; James Dillard and his wives, Mary Ramage Dillard and Mary Puckett Dillard; the Farrow brothers, John, Landon, Samuel, Thomas, and William; Gabriel Friday; Emily Geiger, her husband Lewellyn Threewitts, and his brother John; Alexander Haynes; Elijah Haynes and his son David; William Henderson; John Knox of Mecklenburg, North Carolina; James Lusk and his wives, Lettice Thomas Lusk and Sarah McElwaine (McElwayne) Lusk; John Martindale and his wife Polly (Mary) Young Martindale; Charles Miles and his wife Elizabeth Love Miles and his brother William; Henry Junius Nott; Samuel Otterson; Charles Sims; Henry White and his son James; Minor Winn, his sons John and Richard, and the relationships by marriage between the Winn and Hampton families. Letters also discuss several Catawba Indian families, including Billy, Jacob, Jesse, and John Ayres; George and Peter Harris; and Newriver and his wife Sally.

Accounts of women's ingenuity against the South Carolina Tories are found in the traditional tales related by members of the Dillard, Farrow, Geiger, and Threewitts families. Letters, 1870-1878, from John Rosser, Memphis cotton factor, contain commentary not only on historical topics but also on contemporary matters such as slavery, Reconstruction, and a yellow fever epidemic in Memphis (1878). From Rosser, Draper also obtained an original letter (1803) written by Lafayette to Thomas Sumter Jr. which contains comments on American independence, the Louisiana Purchase, and relations between France and Great Britain.

Three original Richard Winn manuscripts-a letter (1788) and receipt (1792) signed by him and a receipt issued to him by John Buchanan-were given Draper by James H. Rion. Information on the Floyd family is contained in a letter (1872) by Mrs. Mary Lee Walton, sister of Charles Floyd (d. 1804), whose diary constitutes Volume 6 M. Also in Volume 13 VV are manuscript copies by Draper of published and unpublished works by other authors: Peter Jacquette's “Recollections of the Revolution,” from Niles' Register (1829); extracts from publications by John Belton O'Neall relating to William Cunningham and to the battles of Musgrove's Mill and King's Mountain; and “Incidents of the Revolution in Union, York, and Spartansburgh Districts” by D. Wallace transcribed from the original found in the papers of William Gilmore Simms.