This series provides an overview of Porritt's life. Included are a journal written by Porritt's daughter Marjory on her mother's life, a small amount of correspondence, and materials relating to Porritt's early death, including a newspaper clipping regarding her car accident and condolence letters sent to her son Longshaw.

This series contains Porritt's published and unpublished writings, as well as correspondence with various publishers, most of it in regards to her manuscript, "History of the Woman Suffrage Movement."

This series contains correspondence, conference materials, bulletins, and printed material on the many organizations Porritt was active with, most significantly the American Birth Control League, the Joint Committee on Delinquent Women, and the Connecticut League of Women Voters.

The Subject Files primarily contain printed material and some correspondence on the reform movements Porritt was active in, namely birth control and suffrage, yet including some materials on religion, education, and the reform of delinquent women. Also included are autograph lecture notes on a variety of subject about social problems and the law.