The Providence almanac and business directory for the year 1843 / by Benjamin F. Moore.

Contemporary inscription in pencil on verso of title page: "Mrs Harriet W Allen, Providence R.I., County of Providence" (this may be the Harriet W. Allen [1820-1905] who married Henry H. Clark in 1852 and who is now buried in the Oak Grove Cemetery in Pawtucket, Rhode Island); lined memoranda pages for January through September filled in with occasional contemporary budgetary notes, ledger-style, in pencil (by Allen?), including "ribbon", "cloth", "candy", "cord", "pocket book", "dress making", "horse kiping tol", and "hare cut"; mathematical/financial calculations in pencil on verso of title page (partially erased); pencil markings in the calendar section; pencil inscription(s) on title page, mostly erased; print-out of bookseller's description, by De Wolfe & Wood Rare Books, Alfred, Maine, available in MSS 466.

In publisher's blind-stamped, ribbed purple-brown cloth; upper board stamped in gilt; salmon end-papers.