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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.