The papers include the Family Chronicle (an account of family and other matters written by Davies in 1905, covering the years 1847-68) and papers relating to the following: London University degrees for women; Elizabeth Garrett and medical examinations; the Victoria Magazine, 1863-4; the London School Board, 1870-73; the Schools Enquiry Commission, 1864-70; admission of girls to local examinations, 1858-69; the London Association of Schoolmistresses and the Kensington Society, 1866-69; Cambridge and Oxford degrees for women, 1880-97; Girton College, 1867-1903, and the College Jubilee, 1919; and women's suffrage, 1907-18. There are also presentations, obituaries, newspaper cuttings, pamphlets and letters to the press.