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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..."

Sending a poem, “Georgy Goobers,” to the Current, hoping it will be published. “The Current has rejected two of my MSS. but I intend to continue sending them until it recognizes my worth, or I am convinced of my worthlessness as a writer.” Poem about Georgian peanuts, written in the dialect of a seventy-year-old Georgian native now living in Texas. Recollections of growing and eating peanuts throughout a lifetime in Georgia.

Has recently moved to Texas with her preacher husband. Describes their church, the congregation, and their home. Pencil illustration: floor-plan of their house.

Description of life in Texas, the sale of their house, cost of goods, financial difficulties, immigrants, and environmental issues. Ollie hates Texas.

Chides Eby for vague writing. Comments on their ancestors, “the oppressed of Europe—driven to Amarica. & you cannot deny that some of them were educated in the Mother country… They left the weak minded & silly butterflies of fashion behind.” Believes current members of the “latter day society” are poor reflections on their ancestors on account of “superficial education.” Feels that Eby’s assertion that women are weaker and mentally inferior to men may be true in general but not in particular cases, citing women receiving medical honors at the University of Edinburgh. Remarks on celebrated women, including Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899), Harriet Hosmer (1830-1908), [Elizabeth Barrett] Browning (1806-1861), and Alice and Mary Lyon. “Perhaps you will say they went ‘beyond the bounds of their sphere.’ Allow me to say that the phrase ‘Womans Sphere’ is meaningless hurtful & prejudicial. The sphere of man or woman is the whole round of space, any portion they can fill honorably or usefully by their mind & ability.”

Wearied from caring for her ill mother. Notes the birth of Sallie's son. "I am glad she is through, & glad to know it is a boy as they can baffle with the difficulties, & dangers of life, better than girls." Comments on crops and faith that God will provide. Disappointed to not receive letters, despite having sent paper, envelopes, and stamps. Describes Joe, currently at Bristol Seminary, and his interest in Mexico. See also: "Mother" ALS to "Son," Undated.

Written to a child, care of her father G[eorge] W. Oakley. “I will write a letter all to your own self, and direct it to you, but you will have some one read it to you.” Acknowledges the receipt of pictures, sent from Sioux City, Iowa. Comments on Sylvia being a happy child, especially on Christmas.