Mamie P. Schultz of Worcester, Pennsylvania, kept this notebook while a student at "Metz's School" in Worcester, Pennsylvania. It contains notes pertaining to American and English literature, providing biographical information about various poets and authors and details of their published works, distinguished between prose, poetry, and novels.
Schultz included content on figures such as William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John G. Whittier, James Russel Lowell, Edgar Allan Poe, Benjamin Franklin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Bayard Taylor, Washington Irving, Alice Cary, George Bancroft, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, and Oliver Goldsmith. The volume also contains a list of twenty-four English and American writers and a poem entitled "History" detailing the progression of American presidents. Schultz's examination marks for all her school subjects are recorded near the end of the volume, with her highest mark of 100 being received in literature. The inside front cover and title page bear three colored stamps of butterflies and two male laborers.
