Contains inscriptions by Presidents John Q. Adams, John Tyler, Martin Van Buren, and one by W. H. Harrison (tipped to the title-page). Others who have inscribed the album are Washington Irving, John Howard Payne, Henry Brackenridge, George Catlin, J. C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, Benjamin F. Butler, and W.C. Macready; there are also a large number signed with initials, many of them probably statesmen.

On one page appears a poem entitled "An Enigma," signed "J.G.D.", and on the verso of the sheet appears "The Solution" to the enigma, written by John Quincy Adams. On another page Adams has written a poem entitled "To Miss Octavia C. V. Walton" and has signed it "John Quincy Adams. Washington, 19 April 1834." The inscription by President Tyler is written in praise of Miss Walton's grandfather, George Walton, signer of the Declaration.

The father of Miss Walton held the office of Secretary of State for West Florida under the administration of President Jackson, and a number of the entries were written at Pensacola. Miss Walton's portrait was painted by Thomas Sully, and one of the inscriptions in the volume is entitled "Lines on seeing Mr. Sully's portrait of Miss Octavia Walton". Miss Walton became the wife of Dr. Henry Levert of Mobile, Alabama, in 1838, according to an entry in the volume.