This BOOK was passed to Jeanne (Landis) Illian upon the death of her mother in 1980. The book was apparently conceived by Hannah's brother E.W. Robinson when Hannah was in her early twenties. Various friends and relatives entered verses in their own handwriting, apparently as Hannah was planning to leave her childhood home of Providence (or Kingston) Rhode Island for marriage to Edmund Landis of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Hannah's marriage probably took place in late 1845, since Hannah's first child was born 4 October 1846.

All but one of the entries were written in the 1840's, but one was contributed in 1893 by "Will, aged 6", who is probably William Walter Landis, Hannah's grandson. Several poems have the theme of a recent death, such as a contribution by Carline B. Denise, which names the deceased as "Sarah", probably a sister. In a book on the Robinson family, a family is described which contains a Hannah, her brother Edward W., and a sister Sarah who died in 1832 at the age of 25, all of which also describe our Hannah here, except that all dates for our Hannah are 9 years later in time. It is possible that these are the same Hannah.