This collection includes a memobook and journal owned by Judith Fenner Barnard. The memobook, dated July 1964, contains recipes, addresses, hospital records, and a seating arrangement for a dinner party. The recipes include breakfast foods, desserts, casseroles, and bread. The journal contains handwritten recipes for candies, breakfast foods, desserts, ice cream, sauces, bread, stew, pickles, and preserves.

The journal, 1914-1972, includes entries about the Barnard family's life as well as handwritten recipes and updated notes. For example, on page 37 for "Julius Andrews Sea Foam," the recipe is written in blue pen, with black pen adding new information, pencil at the bottom with a warning, and then another pencil note dated February 19, 1950, with a message saying to heed the above warning. Some pages were ripped out from the journal, including the first 26 pages. The first page of the journal includes information on the first owner of the book, Judith's husband Edgar C. Barnard. It goes on to explain where the Barnards resided in Roadsville, Virginia, and when the book is given to Judith, she sometimes writes about living in Prince George, Virginia.