The collection deals primarily with the personal life of Ellen Warren Scripps Booth. The time period covered ranges from her school days in the early 1870s through her death in 1948.

The Papers contain a smattering of documents, including childhood drawings and maps, pages from an autograph book, Daughters of the American Revolution membership papers, journals from trips taken in 1881 and 1927, and a few Cranbrook-related papers. In addition, there is a series of letters from Ellen Booth’s mother, Harriet J. Scripps, as well as a run of Mrs. Booth’s diaries, the majority of which span the years 1880-1910.

Finally, there are eight photographs, mostly ferrotypes and ambrotypes, and one small watercolor; all of those able to be identified are of early Scripps or Booth family members.