Miscellaneous papers gathered by Draper about British officers and regiments and South Carolina Loyalist officers. The first third of the volume contains articles and abstracts copied or clipped by Draper from eighteenth and nineteenth-century newspapers and periodicals. Among the major selections are: Cornwallis's letters (June-July, 1780) to Henry Clinton copied from the London Gazette; Robert Grey, “Observations on the War in Carolina,” clipped from The North Carolina University Magazine (1858); a “Narrative” by a Tory, Levi Smith, copied from the South Carolina Gazette (1782); a few letters and news items (1781-1782) from Scot's Magazine; and data on Loyalist regiments in New York as well as in the South copied from Henry Onderdonk, Revolutionary Incidents of Long Island, New York (1846, 1849).

The remaining two-thirds of the volume are composed of notes and letters about the following British and Loyalist officers: John Adamson and his uncle James Adamson; James Cary; James Coates; George Dawkins; Thomas Fraser; Robert Grey (Gray); Robert McElroth; John Money; John Skinner; George Turnbull; and James Wemyss. The Fraser papers include not only one original letter [1781] on military matters written by Lord Francis Rawdon to Fraser but also information on Fraser's daughter Caroline Georgiana, who married Prince Lucien Murat. Among the Wemyss papers is a translation of a letter (1780) written in cipher by Cornwallis to Wemyss. Three manuscript articles on British officers and regiments, which were written by Wemyss, were copied for Draper from the papers of Jared Sparks in Harvard University. From an original manuscript loaned by Edward M. Boykin, Draper copied a letter (1780) written by James Cary to Joshua English describing the theft or escape of six Negroes.