The inside of the cover is bare except for a bit of Victorian die cut. It depicts what appears to be a "horn of plenty" filled with flowers. An interesting side note here is that these sort of die cuts were traditionally something that girls would play with. To find this in a book containing the very detailed family history of an immigrant couple is quite intriguing to me. Did it come with the book when it was bought. Should we look at this along with the picture on the cover and perhaps consider the possibility that the book started out belonging to someone else and was rehabbed for the purpose of compiling this wealth of memories?
The opposite page, which also is the first page of the book, has no page number but for our purposes, and due to the fact that the pages from this point on carry some sort of numerical value, we'll designate this page with a Roman numeral I. Here we see the simple words; "Memories from my childhood" by Niels Hemmingsen, born on the 3rd of June 1836. Short and to the point. This might as well be the title of a short story or even a novel, and one has to admit that Niels Hemmingsen's penmanship is spectacular. It speaks volumes to whom the author was as a person as well as to the times he lived in.
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