Diary has a few pages filled with pencil notes on rooms in house giving information on expenses and details on improvements; also notes on potential items for rooms.

Diary gives extensive information on daily events; no notes until around March 9 where notes departure of Donald, Jr. who leaves for Los Angeles after funeral for father; Donna keeps track of time spent in “museum” located in house getting ready for sale of Donald’s collections; at end of year; notes visits of Alexis Praus and Dr. Macleod who helped appraise the collection; also visits by Lloyd Yenner a lawyer; November 8, 1949 notes visit by Miriam and George Arend who purchased some of the “relics” from Donna; also visited by Dr. Hatt from the Cranbrook Institute of Science; also by December showing collection to customers; does mention other daily events and that she is lonesome and blue; at end of year states has spent 1,642 hours on museum that year.

In the diary, Donna writes about health, visitors, daily life, process of selling items, working in museum, weather, visiting cemetery, missing Donald; around May 2 (highlights day) begins to date Fred Schatz; Donna wears a new blue suit and the go out to dinner; she also describes doing things with Ethel Hotelling.

She writes about daily life; Fred comes to town on the weekends, looks like he is from the Detroit area; talks to him during the evenings; June 13, 1951 sells entire doll collection amounts to fifty-three cartons with a few loose dolls; talks about dates with Fred to Capitol Theater, Harris Hotel for dinner.

Daily life, visits to Morrisons, to doctors; discusses health; sees Fred on weekends but breaks up end of March,also breaks hip on March 30; never mentions Fred again; visits with Florence Thompson Dewing; Dr. Stryker treats her; mentions victory of General Eisenhower in November, very glad.

Notes, expenses, information on Boudeman Buildings; safe combinations

6”x9”; loose spine; sticker on front of notebook says, “Donald O. Boudeman General Insurance Exchange” with address; contains rentals for Boudeman Building for the years 1925, 1926, 1928.

6”x9”; titled, “Trust Funds” “ DB Estate”; “D B” more than likely stands for Dallas Boudeman (1846-1925); lists investments for “Junior” [Donald D. Boudeman, son of Donald Boudeman]; “Bobby” and “Fred” [sons of Dallas Boudeman, Jr.] and “Frieda” first wife of Dallas Boudeman, Jr.

Contains letter written by Donna to Donald, December, 1945; Donald Boudeman will, January 1946; Donna Boudeman, draft of will, n.d.