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Mary Whitall Worthington's diary from her junior year at Bryn Mawr College. The diary begins during her summer vacation while she is visiting friends and family in Europe. She describes visiting Newnham College and sneaking into play rehearsals, hearing engaging speakers on women's suffrage, and traveling around Ireland. Miss Worthington has a deep interest in the Women's Suffrage Movement and this passion can be seen throughout her diary. During her junior year at Bryn Mawr she is the President of the College Equal Suffrage League and attends the 40th Annual Convention of the North American Woman Suffrage Association in Buffalo, New York, in October of 1908. She writes about the experience of attending the convention, of hearing M. Carey Thomas speak, of meeting other women dedicated to the cause, and of her unfavorable opinion of Harriot Stanton Blatch. Her diary includes accounts of other meetings of the Bryn Mawr chapter of the College Equal Suffrage League and her thoughts on the many talks she attends regarding suffrage, including two (one given at Bryn Mawr) by Anna Howard Shaw. She also writes about playing on the hockey team (including a particularly memorable game between the classes of 1909 and 1910 played in "fancy dress"), performing in and and attending plays and other cultural performances, and about traditions including rush night and the garden party. Miss Worthington writes about her different friend groups and their interactions, giving more detail especially as more of them get engaged and some experience the loss of loved ones. She talks about her relatives, particularly her aunt, M. Carey Thomas. Throughout her diary, Mary Whitall Worthington includes photographs of friends, programs from events, exam questions, drawings, and letters from family members. Miss Worthington also includes an index of topics she discusses at the back of the diary.

Alice Stone Blackwell was a suffragist, journalist, and human rights advocate. Written on Woman's Journal stationery. Discusses a letter that was signed by multiple women to be printed in the Women's Journal.

Carrie Chapman Catt was a prominent leader in the women's suffrage movement. Presents budget guidelines, a program, and an agenda for upcoming meetings. Asks members to write in their votes on which topics to discuss in meetings; to vote on whether the committee should adopt Bascomb's Social Theory as the "Text Book" for meetings; and to send any additional suggestions.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and a leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Mrs. Blatch is going away for the holidays so Chapman and Mrs. Catt should postpone their visit for the couple of weeks. She wants to talk over some points of social as well as political philosophy with them. Has cataracts in both eyes and is advised that she will be totally blind soon. Thinks Susan's book is "quite interesting, " but needs much "pruning." States that Susan B. Anthony often says that Catt is the only one "who can fill her place 'in paying her own salary.'" Closes by saying "there is much hard thankless work still ahead."

Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Written on National American Woman Suffrage Association stationery. Hopes Mrs. Catt will be at the State Convention in Brooklyn and is disappointed that Catt was not invited to speak. Rev. Anna Shaw will speak in Dr. Gregg's Church on the 12th. Anthony hopes that Chapman will send notes to liberal ministers so that they might tell their audiences about the program.

Written by Helen Douglass, a suffragist and the second wife of Frederick Douglass, likely to Caroline F. Putnam, a suffragist who ran a school for African Americans in northern Virginia. Discusses an ongoing convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Washington, D.C. Focuses on the lack of attention the event paid to the rights of African American women.

Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Asserts that Miss Beckwith cannot be President of Kings Co. Woman's Suffrage Association but that she must be elected, and that delegates must be appointed by the State President, Mrs. Greenleaf. Written on National-American Woman Suffrage Association stationery.

Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. She requests that her secretary, Emma B. Sweet, be made a regular or alternate New York delegate to the Convention at Des Moines to help New York appear as strong as possible. Wishes that they had the power to prevent Joseph Choate from going to the US Senate; "I would rather have a henchman of Tammany than that lordly, aristocratic, wire-pulling, Constitutional-Convention President."