This collection contains an album of verse, inscribed by various hands, to Theodosia Barriere.

Richa Gratz Etting was born in 1826, as the daughter of Solomon and Rachel Etting. The collection consists of two albums of poetry, notes, pictures, and sketches related to family members.

The album contains 258 pages, including 76 poems and drawings, mostly by Baltimore friends of Lucy Holmes, contributed 1826-1848. A poem on p.55, headed, `Original' (but later known under the title `Alone') is in the hand of Edgar Allan Poe, as is another untitled poem of three stanzas on p.51, by W.H. Poe - copied at his request by E.A. Poe - . Both are believed to have been written circa 1829.