{"value"=>"<p>The personal miscellany contains James, Jr.'s sketchbook, a family record book, and an historical essay.</p> <p>\"How We Saw Italy\" is a volume of James' sketches made during the family trip through Italy. The sketches are artfully done and alternate between highly detailed sketches of piazzas and cityscapes to more comic pieces about the situations the family encountered while traveling. The drawings depict the family leaving their hotel in the Alps and in Turin, where they were sketched looking with wonder at full sets of armor. There are sketches of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Florence, and Verona. James Jr. comically drew their trip to the Monastery of Certosa and drinking with a monk. He also drew a humorous rendition of Romeo and Juliet, no doubt inspired by his trip to Verona. The sketchbook ends with a picture of the Colles family at the dinner table after their return home. \"Days I Would Remember\" is a record book of important dates such as births, deaths, and marriages of members of the Colles, Blachly, and related families. Begun by James, Jr. and his wife Mary Blachly Colles, the book was continued by other family members. Pasted into the back of the book are obituaries of James Colles, James Colles, Jr., Mary J. Colles, Mr. and Mrs. John Taylor Johnston, J.W. Blachly, Bayard Blachley, members of the Beach family, Elizabeth Blachly, Joseph Warren Blachly, Mary C. Blachly, Sara Spencer, John McLeod Matheson, Annie B. Jennings, William H. Alden, General Christopher C. Augar, Harmon Middlebrook, and Sir David Dale. There is a telegram announcing the death of Minnie Beach. There are pressed flowers with a piece of paper that reads \"Flowers from Mr. Colles hand of day of his funeral, Friday, September 16th 1898 by myself\". Also pasted in are the marriage notices of Mary L. Blachly to Enoch Knight, Ethel de Forest to Allen E. Whitman, and Frederic C. Jennings to Annie B. Pond. There is a notice of promotion of C.J. Colles to Major Regimental Surgeon of the Seventh Regiment and a notice that Mrs. J. F. Blachly and Miss Blachly sailed to Liverpool.</p>"}