Primarily Draper's correspondence in the 1870s and 1880s with descendants of Sumter's soldiers. Names of persons and families for whom there are substantive references include: Gerard Brandon; Thomas Brandon; William Buford; the Calk brothers, James and William; Robert Campbell; John Cathey Sr., his son John Jr. and his sons-in-law, Robert Barkley, John Smith, and Hugh Waddell; Samuel Clowney; James, Robert, and Samuel Craig; Robert Craighead; John Flenniken (Flannagan); Gabriel and John Friday (Fridig); David Garrison; John F. Grimke; William Harden; James Hope; John and Thomas Humphries; Henry (“Hy”) Hunter; William Kennedy and his daughter Ann; James Knox; William B. Lewis; William T. Lewis Jr., and Lewis families of North Carolina and Tennessee; Robert McKelvey; James Mackey, his wife, Alice Ford Mackey, and their son John; Thomas McLure (McClure); James Meek; Joseph Morrow and Jane Morrow; James Pagan; David Reid; John Singleton and his wife, Elizabeth Hunt Singleton; Thomas Spratt; James Walkup (Wahab); and Thomas Woolford. There is also information on Robert McLeroth, an officer in the British Sixty-third Regiment; on Loyalists William Cooper, William Cunningham, and the latter's sister Maria and on Catawba Indians Billy George, Peter Harris, and Newriver (New River).

Of unusual interest because of the identities of the writers are a letter (1872) by Mrs. James K. Polk, two (1872) by Polk's niece Jane C. (Mrs. I.N.) Barnett, and two (1874) by Angelina Grimke Weld, all pertaining to family history. Many writers related anecdotes and traditions on assorted topics: Sally Newriver's sense of humor and practical jokes; Robert Crawford's friendship for the teen-aged Andrew Jackson; the resourceful exploits of women, such as Ann Kennedy, Jane Morrow, and Mrs. Boozer, a ferry keeper on the Saluda River, in outwitting the Tories; and Banastre Tarleton's return of captured milk cows to Mrs. Edward Lacey. Clipped material on Jane and John Thomas and on Josiah and William Culbertson (Culberson) duplicates information in Volume 14 VV.