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A 132-page leather bound scrapbook embossed on the front cover ‘Anna Matilda Watson’. Pasted on the pages are images of historical personalities and events, of landscapes and prominent buildings in Ireland and abroad, and images relating to literary, religious and social themes. There are also illustrations of wildlife and nationalities, together with handwritten and printed verse and anecdotes. Inserted between the pages is a printed advertisement for a bridge scorer.

Hardcover notebook bearing the bookplate of Joseph Dollard on the inside cover, and embossed on the first page ‘Emilie M. Watson, Mount-mellick, 1866’. The Watsons were a Quaker family of Mountmellick, a centre of Irish Quakerism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The book contains short essays in clear handwriting with titles presented in ornate calligraphy. Contents include a table listing the gravities of chemical elements; a note on triangles with illustrations; distances of planets from the sun; list of the signs of the zodiac; genealogical tables relating to the royal family; map of Ireland with related topographical and geographical notes; notes on mythology; the role of the resultant in mechanics; phrenology; barometers and thermometers; wind and rain; phosphorus; the empire of Alexander the Great; ancient Greece; classification of mankind; figures of speech; and on mammals, reptiles, insects, fish and leaves. Between the essays are ornate pages containing sayings and quotations. At the end of the book, in reverse, is a long poem of religious nature entitled The Three Rocks, attributed to ‘Nannie’ Webb. For ‘Nannie’ Webb, also see P27/3/1/1.