This volume is a hardcover autograph book entitled “Cherished Memories,” dating to the early 1860s. The most common date for autographs is 1861, but there are signatures from 1862-1864 and 1867. Quotations accompany many of the autographs, and most autographs are dated. Some include passages or poetry. The majority of the signatories are from Watertown, MA

This small autograph book contains dated and undated signatures from primarily Jesuits and Novices from the 1880s. Many of the signers wrote messages, approximately half were written in Latin and the other half in English with one in an Asiatic language.