The records of the Convalescent Home cover the period from 1869-1958. The earliest of these are the Treasurer's cash books dating from 1869-1915. The first two volumes are labeled Ladies Aid Association records, while the remaining five volumes are labeled Convalescent Home records. These bound cash books constitute the extent of the financial records other than two folders containing annual treasurer's reports for 1933-37and 1948.

The Secretary's meeting minutes date from 1875-1916, and from 1929-1940. A note on the first volume indicates "no written record existing of years 1865-75." There is no explanation of the gap from 1917-28.

The bound annual reports cover the years 1876-1926, with a gap between 1876 and 1895. There are individual copies of annual reports in the remaining folders covering the years 1912-1946 with occasional one or two year gaps. Information about the Ladies Aid Association and the Convalescent Home can also be found in the Children's Hospital Annual Reports prior to 1876, for the years 1877-91, and for the 1940's and 1950's.

Correspondence in this collection covers the years 1890-1958 in a somewhat spotty way. For the most part the correspondence is of a general nature; however, there are some items of special interest, particularly a 1905 agreement between the Children's Hospital and the Convalescent Home and a copy of the vote to sell Convalescent Home land to the Babson Institute. The Convalescent Home Superintendent's correspondence for the years 1930-1931 is the only extended run of correspondence in the collection.

The histories and scrapbooks are of interest, but include inconsistent factual information.

The Convalescent Home patient records provide the most consistent sequence of information about the work of the Ladies Aid Association and the Managers of the Convalescent Home. The Admission Registers date from 1875-1958 providing information about each patient, such as: admission number, date of admission, name, age, residence, parents’ names, disease, discharge date, and remarks. The earliest volumes do not list disease and the later volumes list type of service (i.e. medical, surgical or orthopedic) and diagnosis. The Medical Records date from 1896-1907. Volumes overlap each other in their coverage. There is no indication of how medical records were kept after 1907.

There is a small collection of photograph blocks, dating from the late 1930s and early 1940s, as well as seals, a plaque, and a pin. The remainder of the collection is made up of subject files, which are arranged alphabetically, all relating to aspects of the Convalescent Home.