The papers mainly comprise Dorothy Howard's letters home from Girton 1901-05. The large number of letters she wrote, principally to her mother, offer a detailed and often vivid account of life at Girton, and of the sometimes passionate commitment to the liberal political agenda that Dorothy inherited from her family. Included are some letters of a tour of Ireland with a friend, taken immediately after she left College, and a copy of a letter from Augustus Birrell in 1908.