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A currently anonymous writer, likely a traveling salesperson, maintained this "Harris' Improved Expense Account Book for Traveling Men: Vest Pocket Edition" primarily while traveling in Arkansas during January 1889. Other stops appear to have been in Tennessee and North Carolina. The entries are divided between cash disbursed and received, with sections for towns visited, hotel bills, forms of transportation and fare (railroad, sleeper and boat passage, hack, omnibus, street car, etc.), mileage, baggage, washing and incidentals, and other travel expenses.

A currently anonymous writer, likely a traveling salesperson, maintained this "Harris' Improved Expense Account Book for Traveling Men: Vest Pocket Edition" primarily while traveling in Arkansas during January 1889. Other stops appear to have been in Tennessee and North Carolina.

The entries are divided between cash disbursed and received, with sections for towns visited, hotel bills, forms of transportation and fare (railroad, sleeper and boat passage, hack, omnibus, street car, etc.), mileage, baggage, washing and incidentals, and other travel expenses.

Samuel Winship kept this cash book between 1826 and 1827, primarily to document accounts relating to slate quarries in Duchess County, New York. It also appears to feature some personal accounts or entries, such as a recipe for curing hams and a small list of foods towards the end of the volume.

Samuel Winship kept this cash book between 1826 and 1827, primarily to document accounts relating to slate quarries in Duchess County, New York. It also appears to feature some personal accounts or entries, such as a recipe for curing hams or a small list of foods (tobacco, sugar, apples, corn, eggs, molasses, etc.) towards the end of the volume. Also present in the volume is a one-page record of marriages.

On the back cover, Winship inscribed it as being his "Slate Book."