Arranged in two subseries:
Subseries A: Elizabeth Robins, 1874 - 1904
Subseries B: George Richmond Parks, 1871 - 1883

The scrapbooks are arranged chronologically by the first date in each. The scrapbooks contain press clippings gathered together into volumes by either Elizabeth Robins or her husband, George Richmond Parks.

Subseries A. Elizabeth Robins, 1874 - 1904
The earliest scrapbooks in Subseries A date from Robins's youth. They preserve some of the printed poems of her two aunts, J. Cornelia (Robins) Guthrie and Sarah E. Robins; anecdotes; articles on historical and theological interests; wedding invitations; favorite etchings; and mentions of friends and relations.

Scrapbook 1 contains many clippings of dramatic reviews and some playbill announcements, including two notices of "Miss Bessie Robins" in "Who's to Win Him?", Elizabeth Robins's stage premiere on 4 July 1881. Her career as Claire Raimond on tour with James O'Neill is covered in press clippings, as is the period when she was with the Booth & Barrett Company. Scrapbook 1 also contains information, such as reports and weather records, on the Little Annie Gold Mine (which Robins visited in 1880 and for which her father was an assayer), and articles on the reaction of Zanesville to Robins's recitations at the Putnam Female Seminary.

Scrapbooks 5, 6, 7, and 9 deal with press notices and criticisms of theatrical performances in which Elizabeth Robins appeared. Scrapbook 5 contains, for example, reviews of Robins as Calphurnia in Julius Caesar with Booth & Barrett at Boston in 1887. This book and Scrapbook 2 in Subseries B are complimentary. [Photographs of Robins in some of the earlier American roles recorded here can be found in Series Nine: Photographic Materials.] Elizabeth Robins made scrapbook 7 from press clippings collected by William Archer during the Ibsen performances of 1891 - 1893; Hedda Gabler and The Master Builder are the main plays covered in reviews, notices, criticism, cartoons and, in one instance from Punch, satire. Scrapbook 9 deals with the subscription campaign for Little Eyolf and Mariana, and with criticism and notices for Little Eyolf and John Gabriel Borkman.

Number 10 contains reviews and notices for the New Century Theatre production of Robert Louis Stevenson's Admiral Guinea.

Scrapbooks 8, 12, and 13 contain reviews, letters and telegrams connected with Robins's literary works. The reviews are drawn from London newspapers, journals and magazines but also from English provincial, American, Australian, and Irish papers. Number 8 concerns her earliest writings, including the appearance of the short story "The Lucky Sixpence" (1893) in the first issue of The New Review. Scrapbook 12 was made immediately after the publication of The Open Question in 1898. Here, Elizabeth Robins put clippings which dealt with the novel's reception and with the discovery that "C.E. Raimond" was the literary pseudonym of London's famous Ibsen actress. A similar book, number 13, was compiled upon the release in 1904 of The Magnetic North. These three scrapbooks contain some letters which relate to the novels; those which could be removed have been filed appropriately in Series Two: General Correspondence.

Subseries B. George Richmond Parks, 1871 - 1883
Elizabeth Robins's husband, George Richmond Parks (1856 - 1887), was an actor with the Boston Museum Company when she first met him. Parks kept four scrapbooks, two of which contain only playbills.

Scrapbook 1 consists of playbills from various theatres, primarily the Boston Theatre, Boston Museum Company, and the Globe Theatre. Scrapbook 2 is similar, but also includes playbills for performances in which Robins and Parks appear together, for example in The Merchant of Venice or King Lear. Scrapbooks 3 and 4 contain criticism and notices of plays in which Parks appeared, from Boston, Chicago, St. Louis, and Baltimore newspapers.

The scrapbooks of Series Eleven gather together material on specific topics from a wide variety of printed matter. It does not appear that negative reviews were censored. Aside from the obvious value to researchers of Elizabeth Robins's early American stage career as represented in Subseries A, the scrapbooks of George Richmond Parks provide a window on the world of early American theater.