Title page reads "The Scrap Book of William W. Thornburgh Bought in Waynesville Ohio 25th of the 8th Month 1836." It contains a letter of Joseph John Gurney to Spiceland Monthly Meeting, 1837; Thomas Evans, Philadelphia, to Moses H. Beede, 4th Mo. 29, 1837, on slavery; threnodies on the deaths of William's wives Sarah Thornburgh, 1841, and Susan Thornburgh, 1849; and miscellaneous laid in scraps of poetry