Book measuring 5⅛ × 3⅝ × ½ inches (13 × 9 × 1 cm) with fifty-two leaves, including pastedowns on the inside of the front and back covers and a flyleaf in the front of the vol­ume, measuring 4⅞ × 3⅜ inches (12 × 9 cm). Each page is ruled with fifteen blue lines and has red lines marking horizontal and vertical margins. The book is bound in black leather. The front cover has the word “MEMORANDUM” embossed in golden letters with a pattern surrounding it. Entries are made in either black or blue ink with some notations in graphite. Samuel W. Richards used the volume to record lists of Bible passages, a chronology, accounts of discourses or teachings, and recipes for red ink and various medicines. The text block is separating from the cover.

The book apparently remained in the possession of Richards’s family after his death. In 1959 Samuel W. Richards’s grandson Alton F. Richards transferred the notebook to the Church Historical Department (now CHL).