Series: 14 VV (Volume 14)
Scope and Content Note: Additional Draper correspondence, mainly in the 1870s, notes of interviews (1871), and clipped articles. Although dozens of persons, places, and events are mentioned incidentally, the letters are centered around the following persons and families: John, Garland, Hardin, and Zachariah Burnley; James Hawthorne; Edward Lacey (Lacy) and his brother Joshua; Charles, Richard, and William Miles; Benjamin Roebuck; William Shields; John Starke, his sister Elizabeth, and her husband George Peay; and John Turner. In one lengthy letter (1871), B.F. Dowell not only detailed the interrelationships of the Dalton, Dowell, Dunlap, Franklin, Head, and Sumter families but also told briefly of his own migration overland to California and Oregon in 1850, commented on the Civil War and Lincoln's assassination, and discussed the technological changes in transportation and communications which had occurred in his lifetime. Printed articles pertain to Thomas Brandon; Josiah, Thomas, and William Culbertson (Culberson); John Thomas and his wife Jane Black; the early history of York County, South Carolina, by Dr. M.A. Moore; and reminiscences of the Revolution by Thomas Young.