A large volume containing diary entries, June 27, 1845 - January 1, 1846, and other writings. Couched as letters to Henry Clay (August 7, 8, and 12) are Hinde's reminiscences of Kentucky with biographical notes on more than a dozen of the men mentioned: John Allin, James Blair, Jesse Bledsoe, John Breckinridge, James and John Brown, Henry Clay, Joseph H. Daviess, James Hughes, Humphrey Marshall, William Murray, G. Nicholas, John Pope, John Rowan, and Isham Talbot.
Other autobiographical recollections of Kentucky beginning in 1797 were written by Hinde in his July 1 entry entitled “A Review of the Great West,” and other correspondence with Clay is discussed or quoted in entries of July 29 and August 11. Topics of other entries include Hinde's religious publishing ventures, past and future, discussed in a letter to the Reverend Robert Breckenridge (July 3); the reburial of Daniel Boone and his wife in Kentucky (August 7); public reactions to a brilliant comet (August 8, 12, and 21); numerous commentaries on American slavery (July 29; August 4, 29, 30; December 20); recollections of Revolutionary soldier Thomas Martin, his brother John, and other members of the Martin family, given in an essay titled “The disbanded officer” (December 8); and Hinde's own ancestry and parentage (December 17).
