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Lockwood's handwritten notes for her biography. She recounts an incident in the case involving the Estate of General John Sevier; Emmetta Humphreys, administrator to the estate, attempted to have Lockwood dismissed from the case, but the Chief Justice of the Court of Claims dismissed Humphreys' Motion and praised Lockwood extensively.

Article in the Cosmopolitan Magazine. Argues that "a social revolution is impending." Discusses women's education as a means of their economic independence. Talks about women's entry into the legal and medical professions; attributes the rising number of women preachers to the temperance movement.

Legal argument presented by Lockwood "In the Matter of the Probate of the Last Will and Testament of Myra Clark Gaines, Deceased."

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.

Handwritten draft of "Lottery Appeal" by Belva Lockwood in the case of the United States vs. William H. Hale. Hale was charged with maintaining an illegal lottery.

Pages 19 and 20 of the "Congressional Record." "Valuable" is handwritten at the bottom of the first page, possibly by Belva Lockwood, and parentheses are handwritten around the portion titled "Legal Disabilities of Women." This portion discusses the bill H. R. No. 177 which would entitle women lawyers who have been a member of the bar of the highest court of any state or territory or of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia for at least three years to be admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States. A vote was taken and the bill was passed. Lockwood had drafted this bill, which had come to be known as the "Lockwood Bill."

Article in the Toledo Weekly Blade written by Emily S. Bouton. Describes the life and career of Belva Lockwood.

Titled "Who's Who in America." Handwritten biographical sketch of Belva Lockwood (not in Lockwood's handwriting). Gives a very brief biographical background and lists her major accomplishments.

Handwritten notes about Belva Lockwood's Eastern Cherokee case and Mary Gage case. "The Eastern Cherokee Case" is written at the top and is underlined.

Includes an article titled "A Distinguished Visitor" about Belva Lockwood, announcing that she will be speaking at a women's suffrage rally in Ohio on August 2, 1912. The article goes on to discuss Lockwood's accomplishments, including her two campaigns for President of the United States. It notes that "her hobby is world peace" and says she is president of the Peace Arbitration Society of the United States. It also adds that although she is president of the District of Columbia Woman Suffrage Association, she does not consider herself a "professional suffragist speech-maker, and this will be her first speech on women's suffrage in some time.