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Wilbur wrote page-length entries summarizing personally significant events for each day of the year. Documents her social activities and professional life at the United States Patent Office. Comments on current political events. The memoranda at the end includes miscellaneous notes, as well as income and correspondence records.

Wilbur wrote daily page-length entries describing significant events in detail. Much of diary discusses her working conditions at the Patent Office and her correspondence. Other themes include her health, her relationship with her sister Frances Hartwell, and the assassination and funeral of President James A. Garfield. The diary also discusses congressional sessions and White House receptions which Wilbur attended throughout the year, as well as a women's suffrage convention in January and a temperance convention in October. The notes in the back of the diary record over a decade of Memorial ("Decoration") Day events Wilbur attended and summarize her finances. See also mc1158_06_06_001, a diary kept by Wilbur's sister Mary Van Buskirk during a visit to Washington in September 1881.

Wilbur wrote daily page-length entries describing significant events in detail. Recurring themes are her work at the Patent Office and her social activities, including attending White House receptions. Also describes her travels in Massachusetts and eastern New York. The memoranda at the end include a reflection on the year as a whole and a summary of the state of her family.