Topics covered in the collections are: Missions in Southern Africa, Help for St. Peter's College, Alice, Help for new churches needed in the Cape, Move to a new federal seminary in Natal, Death of Margaret Turvey, Nursing, Sister sent to Africa by S.P.C., Formation of Central Council for Women's Work, Home for retired missionaries in S.A., Closing down of A.W.W in England in 1977.

Names in the collection are: Celia R. Porter (Hon. Sec. Cape Town branch), Miss E.M. Wallace (Sec.), Aldred Stubbs, C.T. Wood, Archbishop R.S. Selby Taylor, Theodore Simpson, C.R., Archbishop B. Burnett, C.E. Ferguson - Davie.

Included is a journal article from the South African Historical Journal "Gender, Power and Voice in South African Anglicanism: The Society of Women Missionaries' Journal, 1913-1955", by Deborah Gaitskell, University of London, 2009.

The collection consists of Description of journeys to England in 1885 and 1923 and of activities at St. Augustine's Mission, particularly the school, of which she was in charge. There are also notes on the state of the Zulu people, their customs and missions in Zululand, and also letters of family interest.

The records mainly relate to the Leper Colony on Robben Island. The nurses came from St. Albans in England to work in the Diocese of Cape Town at the invitation of West Jones in 1876. Their head-quarters when working among the Leper children on Robben Island was St. Michaels Home in Kloof St. There is a Jubilee Booklet of their work in the diocese 1876-1926 in folder of their correspondence.