Signed J H T. Written from the point of view of a squirrel who traveled in search of a new home and ends up as a pet.

Signed J H T. Description of the life and virtues of the mechanic.

Signed J A McN. Short, subjective account in praise of America.

Signed J H T. Written from the point of view of a hair pin from its creation to its loss in the street.

Signed J A McN. Account of a northern winter evening by a writer who has not experienced one.

Signed J H T. Description of the writer imagines love and a warning against fickle lovers.

Signed J H Towne. Description of various people and of nature in the evening.

Signed J H T. Description of the Mississippi River and its importance to various groups of people.

Signed J A McN. Description of a meadow and the pleasure and escape it provides.

Signed J A McNeill. Essay about the virtues of women maintaining a pleasing temperament.

Signed J Ann McNeill. Essay describing the virtues and fears of mothers.

Signed J. A. McN. Description of a rain storm as both a cause of fear and a chance to accomplish things indoors. The rest of the items in the journal are located in the final 20 pages. Information in brackets offers a limited identification of the otherwise unidentified items.

A four verse, anonymous song or poem.

An eight verse song or poem with the date Sunday Eve January the 4th 1846. [This does not appear to be an original composition. It may be a version of the song The Indian Student from the early 1840s.]

Untitled poem which appears to have been signed, then erased.

Also appears to have once had a signature, now erased.

Poem, signed Em (?) Etheridge.

Poem, signed Morton Walker.

19th c. British folk song by Scottish-born Allan Cunningham, written before 1825.

Possibly a variation of Miss Lucy Long by George F. Bristow, 1842.