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Second letter to Church in hopes that she will be accepted into an unspecified position.

Remarks on her quiet Christmas, noting that Matt “feasted us to the fullest extent on every kind of fowl and sweet-things Ambrosia.” Comments on social visits, a failed deal concerning horses, and the local shortage of farm hands. Mentions the possible suicide of William Henry Tayler: “it is thought he took strichnine [strychnine], from the manner he died, he had convulsions told his wife good bye and told her not to send for any Doctor he would be dead in fifteen minutes.” Murt starts school soon, “and I will be so lonely, I feel as if I shall die I will be the only white soul on this place day by days.” Brief mention of a “Buffalo robe.”

Discusses how a woman lost her 40 acres of land because she lived with a man who would not work and so lost her 40 acres of her land. Notes the woman's use of morphine and the situation of her children.

Stock certificate for Samuel E. Sewall's two shares in the Woman's Journal, signed by Sewall as President and Henry B. Blackwell, Treasurer. Stock book stub filled out by Lucy Stone affixed to document, noting the 1884 transference of Sewell's stock shares to the new certificate. With verso filled out by administrator of Sewall's estate transferring the two shares to Laura S. Cabot on January 22, 1891.

Two letters from a woman pining for a man who is marrying another woman. Discusses love and marriage. Notes dressmaking and sewing. She is considering marriage to another man. Encloses a “forget me not” lock of hair for Dearn to wear on the Fourth of July.

Small-sized letter sent by a child to Weaver in Selma, Alabama. Believes his ability to go skating is more enjoyable than the dancing Lucia has been doing. Discusses sledding and the presents he received for Christmas, including a gold watch and chain, a ring, a knife, buttons and scarf pin, and an ink stand. Anticipates receiving a bicycle in the spring.

Discusses Christmas and birthday gifts. Gifting the family's china dishes, describing the history of how they were obtained around 1820, the creation of their design, and how they were passed down through family members. Mentions how some dishes were destroyed in transit when mice ate the packing meal, and others broke during the subsequent seven moves.

Writes of Washington high society and social events. Mr. Long’s family has been struggling financially.

Hopes he isn’t being too forward, as they have just recently met. “…reminds me of what Granney use to tell me when I was young; that all boy babys born on friday was to be luckey in getting a pretty wife and in raising hogs.” Comments on other men courting her. “I will plead to you for mercy in the sweet accents of a bursting pumpkin and say Dear Lissie sorty like a snoaring hog in a shuck pen. Will you decend to condescend to give me one sweet ----.” Written on the back of a partly printed receipt for the Holstein Woolen Co., and featuring an image of a sheep.

News of family and the approach of spring. Notes woman who "was found dead on the railroad." Uncle Sam making a cane and slippers. Encloses a letter to her cousin Robert Ingersol that includes a pen-and-ink drawing of a cat with four kittens with "Here I am" written above. Possibly written from the cat's perspective, as it mentions taking her four children to get a photograph taken and "a great fight outside my house last night. It was Tom somebody and another fellow..."