The bulk of this volume contains a copy, made by L.M.H. Reynolds, in 1885, of the journal kept by Delilah Reynolds during her two visits to the Quakers' Virginia Yearly Meeting, in 1842 and 1843. The volume's first two pages record the accounts of the Real Estate Title Insurance & Trust Co. with Lindley M.H. Reynolds, administrator of the estate of Alexander Wray, deceased, dated March 4-June 2, 1885. The name of this company appears on the cover of the volume. Also laid into the volume is the printed design of a piece of jewelry, probably a brooch. The design, showing two hearts joined by a bow and a vine, was cut out of a catalog, magazine, or something of that sort. The heart on the left includes the words "Mizpah: the Lord watch between me & thee when we are absent one from another." The heart on the right is decorated with leaves. In May 1842 and again in May 1843, Delilah Reynolds traveled to the Virginia Yearly Meeting. The 1842 meeting was held in Somerton (also spelled Summerton), Nansemond County; the 1843 meeting was at Cedar Creek, Hanover County. In both accounts, Reynolds identified who she and her travelling companions stayed with and how much they spent on lodging, food, feed for the horse, tolls, and ferriage. On the 1842 trip, Reynolds particularly wrote about the North Carolina countryside that she passed through and the crops that were being grown. In the 1843 account, she described Yanceyville, NC, the plantation of Alexander Cunningham, which was outside Red House, Va., Halifax Court House, Hampden-Sydney College (comparing it to the school in New Garden, NC), and Farmville. On both trips, she noted whether she crossed rivers by bridges, ferries, or fords. Reynolds particularly was interested in traffic on the James River and the James River and Kanawha Canal, which they crossed on the way to Cedar Creek. Reynolds recorded who spoke at the meetings and some of the business conducted. She described the 1843 meeting in greater detail than the one in 1842. She also expressed her religious fervor. In both accounts, Reynolds decried slavery and the use of liquor. She also recorded the mileage of each trip.
