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This diary includes entries of a few lines stating the main events of each day for five years. Topics covered include Rose's frequent attendance to church services, public lectures, and social clubs; housework; leisure activities; social calls; and small trips across the Northeast to visit acquaintances. She specifies her involvement with the [S.M.C.], the Armstrong League [of Hampton Workers?], prayer meetings, book clubs, missionary societies, county meetings, and teachers meetings. She does secretarial work at an unspecified office outside her home, in addition to helping her father with paperwork, and studying and teaching secretarial science. Cover chipping; 366 pages

(No entries between 8 September 1887 and 19 November 1905. The diary provides a detailed itinerary of the Munger family's 1887 tour of Great Britain. Rose describes English and Scottish landscapes, historical landmarks, and museums, as well as the church services she attends. Rose adds an account of a later trip to Italy with shorter entries about her experience on the steamer, and the historic and religious buildings she visits (also in Rose's Diary #6 Box 1 Folder).Cover in good condition but fragile interior binding; 141 + 32 pages. There are two loose notes placed at the end of the Italy trip, a personal card and a computation sheet. Three pages at the end of the diary detail Rose's spending during the Great Britain trip.