Primarily Draper's biographical and genealogical correspondence, 1875-1887, pertaining particularly to Ezra Alexander, Isaac Alexander, and other members of the Alexander family; Waightstill Avery; Ephraim Brevard; William L. Davidson; Henry Downs; John Flenniken; John Foard; Robert Harris; Robert Irwin; James Jack; William Kennon; Matthew McClure; Neill Morrison; Duncan Ochiltree; Benjamin Patton; John Phifer; Thomas and Ezekiel Polk and other members of the Polk family; David Reese; and Hugh Waddell.

Among miscellaneous notes by Draper are excerpts from articles on the Mecklenburg declaration published in the Raleigh Register in 1819-1820 and commentary on the David L. Swain letters in 1858 filed in 2 GG. Remarks on Sabbath customs of the Scottish Presbyterians in North Carolina occur in numerous letters. Depredations suffered during the Civil War and the relationships between black and white residents during the Reconstruction era were described in one letter (1876) by Mary A. Chambers of Bridgewater, North Carolina.