This book is a work containing advice for newlyweds. This volume, intended to be taken as advice by newlyweds and ran twenty-three editions. With one section for women, another for men. With a few poems on the subject and a brief biography of the author. On topics such as general conduct, fidelity, expenditures, family size, domestic economy, dress, conduct toward in-laws, treatment of servants, management of education of children, etc.

An older pocket-sized book, written by Margaret Graves Derenzy and published by Fifth edition. Philadelphia: : E.L. Carey & A. Hart--Chestnut-Street in 1833. Slight foxing on several pages, but still legible.