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The collection contains the constitutions for 1898, 1903, and 1927-1991. The Constitution includes Articles, By-Laws, and Amendments. The Club's By-Laws specify the procedure by which new members are proposed. The earliest Pine Hills Fortnightly Club Constitution is handwritten in a notebook followed by the first recording of membership names dated 1900. Included in the constitutions are by-laws, articles, and amendments to the Constitutions. Constitutions often contain hand annotated revisions for incorporation into the next year's constitution.

Programmes are titled by the Club's annual themes. Programmes and Yearbooks have a copy of the Club Song, list the paper titles and presenter's name, the names of officers and committee members, and a listing of all active members, associate members, nonresident members, honorary members, and members "in memoriam." Beginning in 1921, a list of reference books, or a bibliography associated with the year's theme, became a standard inclusion. Program Committee files describe the formulation of the yearly themes and the provision of direction and guidance for the subject of a member's paper. The Committee assigns the schedule where members commit to delivering a paper at a scheduled meeting.

Subject files include memorials, news clippings, plays presented, and press notices. There are memorials and tributes to some deceased members illustrating aspects of the social ties among the women, as well as news clippings about members and their families. Other news clippings illustrate the Club's relation to the community and the nature of long-lived literary clubs. News clippings are included in the folder that records the 1953 visit of twenty-three Club members to the United Nations to meet the first woman ever to be elected President of the General Assembly, Madam Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, as well as a transcript of the interview they conducted with President Pandit.