The collection primarily chronicles the young adult life and missionary work of Mabuce. The collection consists of correspondence from Mabuce to her parents, brothers and sisters during her years as a student at the Missouri Normal School, later in Chicago and Indiana, and during her years of service in Burma. In the letters, Mabuce recounts everyday experiences, discusses her calling to missionary work, describes Burma and the various ethnic groups living there (e.g., the Burmese, Chinese and Indian), and her travels to and from Burma, which took her to California, across the Pacific Ocean, and through the Orient. Also included in the collection are Methodist missionary publications and reports, many specific to the work in Burma, ephemera from Mabuce’s travels, school records and papers, photographs of Mabuce and her family, Chris Soelberg, and photographs of Burma and fellow missionaries, souvenirs likely brought from Burma and the Far East by Mabuce, and one container of clothing probably worn by Mabuce in Burma. An unrelated file on the 1919-1920 steel strike is also included. Included with Mabuce’s papers are the files relating to the publication of her letters by her niece, Lucille Griffith.