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This pre-printed daily diary was maintained by B. Woodruff, a 26-year-old female school and music teacher. It is comprised of both personal entries and entries relating to the monetary aspect of her work teaching music to students in 1884 in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and South Yarmouth, Massachusetts, areas.

This pre-printed daily diary was maintained by B. Woodruff, a 26-year-old female school and music teacher. It is comprised of both personal entries and entries relating to the monetary aspect of her work teaching music to students in 1884 in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and South Yarmouth, Massachusetts areas.

The diary opens while Woodruff is visiting in St. Louis, after which she recounts the train voyage home to the Philadelphia region, daily affairs tending to the family, and teaching lessons. Woodruff references church meetings, sermons, choir rehearsals, and concerts in her entries. She includes some comments on books she read, and she also recounts her visit to South Yarmouth in July and August.

In the volume, she keeps running accounts at the tops of pages to record the number of lessons given to students. Cash accounts are recorded in the back of the volume, with separate accounting for Woodruff's income received from teaching music. Several quotations are inscribed on the front cover.

The collection consists of two volumes relating to the Dunwoody family of Marple Township, Pennsylvania, produced between 1807 and 1829. The first volume is a memoranda and expense book kept primarily by James Dunwoody, between 1807 and 1815. It documents financial transactions for meat and livestock, crops, and farm labor. Records also indicate when female laborers began their employment with the family, likely for domestic service, listing the wages and expenses for three of them. The second volume is a copybook kept by Jane B. Dunwoody in 1829 while attending the Marple Union Seminary, focusing on practicing forms for banking, business, legal, and real estate transactions.

The collection consists of two volumes relating to the Dunwoody family of Marple Township, Pennsylvania, produced between 1807 and 1829. The first volume is a memoranda and expense book kept primarily by James Dunwoody, but with references to his sons John, William, and Joseph, between 1807 and 1815. It documents financial transactions for meat and livestock, crops, and farm labor, with several entries with women or notes about cash being provided to wives. Records also indicate when female laborers began their employment with the family, likely for domestic service, including one under-age girl who took up work with her parents' consent and one African American woman ("Black Hariott"). It lists the wages and expenses of Hannah Griffith, Anna Griffith, and Hanah Sithers, documenting the items they were acquiring while in the employ of the family. A recipe for making pills is present, as well as a page of household expenses. The volume has paper covers with woodcut illustrations of four scenes: "Two Sturdy Bull Dogs," "The Fox and the Goat," "An Ass and His Master," and "A Dog and his Shadow."

The second volume is a copybook kept by Jane B. Dunwoody in 1829 while attending the Marple Union Seminary, focusing on banking, business, legal, and real estate transactions. She studied document forms, such as indentures for apprentices, promissory and judgement notes, property leasing, proxy votes, bonds, bills of sale, mortgages, among others. The volume has illustrated, printed covers. The front cover is labelled "The Pet Lamb" and shows a man holding a lamb in his arms with pasted-on letters "JBD Book," and the back cover is labelled "The Pheasant" and shows a pheasant accompanied by a description of the bird by Goldsmith.