Near the end of her life, at the request of her son, Gilmour had begun writing a memoir which she referred to as "the book." This evidently included the brief account of her childhood entitled "St. Bridget's Child," as well as "The Kid Chronicle that Was Not Written" (describing her meeting and correspondence with Charles Warren Stoddard) and "Inside Looking On: When East Weds West." All of these were unpublished at the time of her death, as was her story about Ailes' arrival in San Francisco, "Ai-chan Goes to Frisco."