A draft title-page (folio 24) suggests that in 1850 Adam White was proposing to publish a work on 'Weeds and wild-flowers loved by Wordsworth', and the first part of the album contains a collection of materials towards this purpose: drawings and engravings of wild flowers with some specimens of pressed flowers, newspaper-cuttings, and copies of letters and poems of Wordsworth.
The collection of information is then extended to include other poets: Coleridge, Cowper, Southey, Tennyson and James Montgomery. It includes letters to White from Montgomery, and drawings by White of Cowper's house at Olney, along with numerous engravings and newspaper-cuttings.
Finally, possibly after White's death, the album was used for a general autograph collection, some of the items being in facsimile.
