The collection consists of three notebooks, quarter bound in cloth and marble paper. They contain hand-written notes in ink and pencil, as well as several drawings and sketches, all by Charlotte de Tonnancour. The notebook labelled “Medical Lectures” (#1.3) contains fourteen sheets of loose paper containing further notes. All of the notes pertain to medical lectures and topics. Only one of the notebooks contains a date. “Charlotte deTonnancour ‘20” is inscribed in ink and a May 1919 date is recorded at the top of a single page of lecture notes in one of the notebooks.

The lecture notes cover a wide variety of course topics taught by various doctors and nurse instructors including: Diseases of Children with Dr. Place, Diseases of the Newborn with Dr. V. Reuss, Diseases of Nutrition with Dr. J[ohn Lovett] Morse, Intestinal Obstructions with Dr. Leland, Anesthesia with Dr. Allen, Food Preparation and Breast Feeding with Dr. Hill, Child Welfare with Ms. Besom, Bronchial Pneumonia with Ms. Frey, Formulas with Ms. Sullivan, and notes of infant diet by Czerny-Kleinschmidt.

One of the drawings takes up an entire page and shows three nurses in uniform. They are marked “MGH, CH, PBB” and document the respective nurse uniforms worn at Massachusetts General Hospital, Children’s Hospital, and the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.