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Lockwood's handwritten notes, likely for her biography. She writes about the John Sevier estate case in which the judge denied Emmetta Humphreys' motion to have Lockwood dismissed from the case and praised her twenty-five years of service as a member of the bar. She then goes into detail about her struggle to get her law degree. She describes being rejected from Columbia Law College and Georgetown and then finally being admitted to the National University Law School (now the George Washington University Law School) but being denied her diploma because "some young men in the class did not wish to graduate with women." She transcribes the letter she wrote to President Ulysses S. Grant appealing to him for her diploma (Grant was chancellor ex officio of the National University Law School), and though she did not receive a direct answer from the president, a week later she received her diploma in the mail and was admitted to the bar the week after that. She also briefly discusses canvasing the South in support of Horace Greeley for president and claims that she gave "perhaps the first woman suffrage lecture ever made in the South." She notes that she is unable to give a very comprehensive account of the life of her second husband, Ezekiel Lockwood.

Dr. Hassenplug expresses concern about Martha Schofield's health and is eager to receive word from her. He discusses President Ulysses S. Grant's inauguration and cabinet, which he regards positively, though he does not like the cold weather that Grant has brought them.

Mary Child was Martha Schofield's mother. She discusses her recent activities and talks about the Quaker Meeting she recently attended, after which a letter was read from President Ulysses S. Grant to Benjamin Hallowell stating that "it is his wish that Friends should choose members of their own society to go out as agents among [the Indians] and he will do all he can to support them."