Including a letter from Anne Ritchie (Tennyson's daughter) to Mr. Pearson, dated April 9, 1907, saying that she must ask £100 for the pocketbook and will not sell it unless she can get that amount; apologizing for causing him "needless trouble;" The letter is written on stationery embossed "109, St. George's Square, / S.W;" the letter is tucked into the leather pocket at the front of the diary.
Shelved for many years in a drawer of Pierpont Morgan's desk in the West Room of The Morgan Library and Museum.
With a small pen and ink drawing, in the left upper corner of the first leaf, of the profile of a woman's head and with Thackeray's monogram drawn in pen and ink in the center of the page.
Being an appointment diary with entries from September 28 through December 31, 1852 which include time spent in Boston and New York on an American tour; the entries are few and lacking in detail.