HISTORICAL NOTE 

This collection consists of three volumes, 1866-67 of the diary of Abby Cummings Locke, 1851-1938 and other material.  Abby Locke recorded her happy life as a teenager in Andover just after the Civil War. 

The second section consists of 1868 calling card, probably from one of her many admirers, O. H. Perry, Jr. 

On October 29, 1874, she married T. Dennie Thomson.  The wedding invitation makes up the third section of material.  In 1920, as an old woman, she dictated memoirs to her son, Philip Thomson.  Also preserved is a business card of her father, Samuel B. Locke, “Dealers in American and Scotch Pig Iron.”

Processed by Mary F. Morgan, March 1983.

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