The letters are from the author to her friends Ruth Richardson and Blanche Rollinson. Written from her home in Lebanon, they describe her life there and cover a wide variety of topics including living conditions, politics, women's rights, the weather and family news.

Two items are paragraphs only, clipped from letters, containing information about the marriage of her daughter and the birth of her grandchild and describing the Druse religion, a sect of Islam of which her husband Fouad was a member.