This autograph album was published as a blank book interspersed with illustration plates and several colored pages. There are signatures, inscriptions, quotes, and poems, a large paper heart decorated with a braid of dark hair, and a “dedicatory” dated 1861 to Lucy Emily Medlin from her husband of sixteen years, Bryant Medlin. Interspersed with these are observations, notes, and diary-like entires on political events and people.

It is unclear if the notes were written by Lucy or if the book was repurposed by another individual at a later date.