The Christian almanac, for New-England, for the year of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, 1833 : being the first after bissextile, and the fifty-seventh of the Independence of the United States : calculated for the meridian of Boston : lat. 42° 20' 57, 8" N., long. 71° 4' 9" W.

"Michael Shephard" inscribed in a contemporary hand twice on front wrapper and once on rear wrapper (in several variations); blank sheets tipped between calendar pages (five total) by means of sealing wax, bearing notes in an early hand (Shephard's?; some in pencil) regarding weather, the arrival and departure of various vessels (from and to Boston, Baltimore, Paraíba, Sumatra, and other ports), as well as personal notes; marginal note in the same hand on leaf A6v regarding the schooner Generous arriving from and leaving for Paraíba; mathematical calculations in an early hand on front wrapper and title page (some in pencil); additional stray markings and notes in pencil in several locations throughout; piece of wove paper found between leaves A3v and recto of tipped-in leaf, removed and now available in MSS 466; portion of vignette on front wrapper outlined in ink; pencil inscription on front wrapper: "Dup, 1-16-14".

MSU: Library's copy is of the third state (see note above).

MSU: Laid-in material transferred to MSS 466, Box 8, Folder 139.

In publisher's printed paper wrappers, with a vignette of a white missionary preaching to a group of individuals from different ethnic groups; printed text on outside and inside of both wrappers; stab-stitched; hole punched through upper left-hand corner of text block.