According to the donor, the daybook comprising this collection was kept on a plantation, presumably owned by the Wallace family, in the vicinity of Como. A John Wallace owned a store in the area one mile west of Como prior to the Civil War, that area was known as Wallace Corner. In 1855 a Colonel Thomas Wallace built a house there, known as Wallace Park.

This collection consists of one volume, a daybook containing individual accounts for blacksmith services and for minor hardware items sold during the period 1837–1847. Though the book's owner is unidentified, on page 112 of the volume is found this inscription, "Cornelia Wallace Book, 1855."

The volume was used as a scrapbook for newspaper poems after its usefulness as a daybook was over. The poems were removed from the pages to reveal the original daybook entries and are gathered in the back.

Many pages of the volume are missing or are partially mutilated.

Series:

1. Daybook. 1837–1847; 1855; n.d 1 item. The newsclippings originally pasted to the pages of the daybook were removed and are gathered in the back of the volume.