Covering over ten years, the scrapbooks provide an insight into the social and domestic life of a wealthy young woman of the time. The volumes consist largely of photographs many probably taken by Lady Newhailes, and autographs of family and friends, photographs and water-colour drawings of Lady Newhailes's homes at Ardwell and Newhailes, and country houses visited in Scotland and England. With programmes and tickets for various sporting and social occasions pasted in. MS.25677 relates entirely to visits to Japan and North America in 1911.