Volume comprising four travel narratives, written by an anonymous author. Journeys begin and end in Stroud, Gloucestershire, and a large number of friends and relatives are mentioned by name. Also included within the journal is several lists of expenses for their journeys.
The diary begins on 21 June 1834 recording a journey from Stroud to Evesham and then around the Birmingham area, and later Derbyshire. This includes a visit to the Botanical Gardens, the Edgbaston 'Deaf and Dumb Asylum,' a number of industrial manufactories, Haddon Hall, Willesley Castle, and the Peak Cavern.
Her second journey begins 8 June 1835, travelling from Stroud to London and then Rotterdam for Amsterdam, but also visiting Leyden, the Hague, Zeeburg, and many attractions in the towns and cities of the Netherlands. This also includes her account of experiencing some minor 'riots in Amsterdam' on 4 July 1835.
A third entry is written on 9 June 1837 relating to another journey to Birmingham and around the West Midlands, but is cut short and left unfinished.
Lastly, the author tours Weymouth and Lyme from 3 July 1840, where they visited the Isle of Portland, toured the cliffsides of Charmouth, and observed the impact of the Whitlands Landslip near Dowlands in Devon of the year earlier.
The author provides meticulous accounts of the places and buildings she visits, including very detailed accounts of the rooms of palaces; of paintings in museums and galleries, particularly during her tour of the Netherlands in 1835 and at the Felix Meritis; of the processes of the manufactories; and the history and stories behind the buildings and places which she visits, including an entire section dedicated to retelling the history of Lyme after her journey there is finished. She also regularly records the sermons she has heard each Sunday, visits many different churches on her travels, and even attends a meeting of discussion at Easter Hall in London between Catholics and Protestants on 11 July 1835 which resulted in several Roman Catholics being taken out by the police.