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In this diary Emma writes extensively about meeting- including Temperance Meeting, Orthodox Yearly Meeting, and also attending Hicksite Meeting. The Thompson's travel between their winter home in Philadelphia and summer home in the Poconos each year. Emma regularly includes local and national stories from the newspaper.

Diary of the month of July which includes the day-to-day social calls and outings of Alice. She describes the experience of being courted by several men (not all of whom she likes).

In this diary Alice recounts the family's vacations to Saratoga Springs and the Catskills, as well as day-to-day life in Brooklyn. Later on in the year, she begins attending a boarding school in New York City.

Alice describes attending meeting and various committees, as well as the comings and goings of her children Rita and Frederick. She visits Rita in Florida for part of the year.