The King journal is a single volume (19 cm.) half-bound in calf, bearing the stationers label of D. J. Turnbull, Cincinnati. It contains 71 leaves, with around 130 pages of manuscript in King's hand. The first leaf of the volume bears the inscription "William King / Franklin Co. Ohio / March 27 1835". The journal contains two primary types of material. The first half of the book (69 pages) is filled with some 38 verse compositions, most of them explicitly identified as having been authored by King. Some are plainly lyrics for hymns; a few take the form of acrostics. Those that are dated were mostly written in 1831-32, in what was presumably the immediate aftermath of King's conversion. The content of the verse is of no great complexity, the prevailing theme being the need for sinners to come to Christ. The second part of the book consists of journal entries, beginning on 8 February 1838 (and "a determination on my part to go forward and do my duty in the fear and for the alone Glory of God"). The entries extend into 1842, occupying a total of 58 pages. Entries are almost exclusively dedicated to the author's exhortations; typical content includes the date, place and scriptural premise of his "appearance"; the extent to which the spirit moved him, and his auditors' response.