The handwritten manuscript contains approximately 220 pages. The spine reads "Album" at the top and "Ursula" at the bottom. On the third page, the book is signed, "Miss U. Banfield." The book begins with verses by William Cowper: "The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk," "Ode to Peace," and "The Lily and the Rose"; followed by Robert Burns: "Afton Water," "Thine Am I, My Faithful Fair," "The Song of Death," and "Farewell to Eliza." Writers and works include Anne Hunter, "Despair"; Lord Byron, "On Parting," "Farewell," "Napoleon’s Farewell," "I Saw Thee Weep," "Oh! Weep for Those," "My Thirty-Sixth Year," "The Tear"; Laetitia Elizabeth Landon, "The Foresaken"; John Lee Stevens, "To Melancholy"; Robert Shorter, "On Seeing in a List of New Music, The Waterloo Waltz"; Mary Wood Forten, "Good Wives"; Thomas Moore, "The Castilian Maid," "Hark! The Vesper Hymn is Stealing," "Fly Not Yet," "She Is Far from the Land"; Thomas Campbell, "The Exile of Erin"; Laura Sophia Smith (Temple), "The Mansion of Rest"; Thomas Haynes Bayly, "Isle of Beauty"; Henry Neele, "Such Things Were"; Bryan Waller Procter, "The Sea"; the Ettrick Shepherd (James Hogg), "Mora Campbell"; Jane Taylor, "The Shipwrecked Lascar"; Hannah F. Gould, "The Snow Flake"; and John Moultrie, "Forget Thee!" Other entries include: "To Hope," "Lady Jane Grey to Lord Guildford Dudley," "Lord Guildford Dudley to Lady Jane Grey," "Hints to a Young Lady by a Female Friend," "Advice to Ladies Seeking Husbands," "The Mourner," and the ballad, "The Wreck."