Martin began his final volume of compiled retrospective and contemporary commentary after he went to work as an accountant at Katahdin Charcoal Iron Co. in 1885. Some of the materials repeat what he wrote in his journal and other scrapbooks.
Some of the people and events mentioned:
- Neil Kullborg drawings
- Ernst Sjostodt
- Stanfords Ball, Bangor
- Jesse Stone
- Katahdin Iron Works history
- Owen H. Williams
- Morgan Bristland
- Hollis Bowman
- D. C. McRuer
- Elbridge S. Fifield