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Wilbur wrote daily page-length entries describing significant events in detail, including her political activism. Wilbur was dismissed from the Patent Office in January 1886 and spent several months unemployed before being rehired in May. The memoranda at the end include a reflection on the year as a whole, a summary of the state of her family, a description of things she saw on a visit to Philadelphia, and various facts, figures, and literary extracts.

Dorothy Burr Thompson’s post-college diary in which she writes about her travels.

See also Wilbur's journal briefs (mc1158_06_03_001), in which she highlighted significant events recorded in this diary. Semi-daily entries discuss domestic activities and daily life with a focus on Wilbur's struggle with her widowed brother-in-law Revilo Bigelow over her relationship with her niece Alfreda Bigelow.

Entries are from July and August 1826 and concern Collins's religious feelings and her often-repeated desire to dedicate herself more and more fully to her faith.

Discusses her religious life, including her feelings at Quaker meetings and the people she heard speak there; her struggles against the temptations of "the evil one"; her visits to various people for spiritual purposes; and her increasingly strong urge to speak in meeting. Mentions being appointed to "treat with a young woman who had joined the Society of Shakers." Also discusses illnesses and major life events among her family and friends.

See also Wilbur's journal briefs (mc1158_06_03_001), in which she highlighted significant events recorded in this diary. Describes Frederick Douglass's account of John Brown. Discusses the outbreak of and major events during the Civil War. Documents her daily life.

See also Wilbur's journal briefs (mc1158_06_03_001), in which she highlighted significant events recorded in this diary.

Wilbur wrote daily page-length entries describing significant events in detail. Recurring themes are her work at the Patent Office and attending White House receptions and congressional sessions. The memoranda at the end include a reflection on the year as a whole, a summary of the state of her family, a list of objects she saw at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, and various facts and literary extracts.

See also Wilbur's pocket diaries for 1867 and 1868 (mc1158_01_03_002 and mc1158_01_03_003).

Mary Whitall Worthington's diary from around the time of her senior year at Bryn Mawr College, 1909-1910. The diary begins with a description of Miss Worthington's summer vacation in which she goes first to Baltimore to visit with family and friends, and then to New York before sailing to Europe on board the RMS Lusitania. In England, she attends a number of parties and social engagements and makes new friends. She goes to the World's Student Christian Federation Meeting in Oxford and is moved by the religious devotion she witnesses. Worthington is particularly interested in the suffrage movement, and while in England she has tea with Inez and Vida Milholland. They attend a "suffragette raid" on the House of Commons together, and Miss Worthington gives a detailed description of the demonstration and includes newspaper clippings with her own thoughts. Later in the year, when Emmeline Pankhurst gives a lecture at the Merion Cricket Club and tours Bryn Mawr, Worthington is able to speak with her about the movement and privately marvel that she dressed in purple, white, and green -- suffragette colors. This diary is filled with Miss Worthington's high praise of her friends, descriptions of hockey games, club lectures, play and glee club rehearsals, and traditions such as rush night, Lantern Night, May Day (for which she was elected the May Queen), and bonfire night. Throughout her diary, Miss Worthington talks about her relatives, in particular her aunt, M. Carey Thomas. She also includes programs from events, exam questions, drawings and photographs, and letters from family members. Miss Worthington also includes an index of topics she discusses at the back of the diary.