Content Description
The Abigail Mason and Colgate Family Correspondence is solely from the year 1888, with the exception of the unknown date for the label, written later by another family member. The collection consists of personal correspondence in the form of notecards, their original envelopes, and a letter. These items revolve around the occasion of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Colgate’s marriage and include two notecards addressed to the newlyweds, as well as a letter to Gilbert Colgate’s mother, Elizabeth Ann Morse Colgate. The letter to Elizabeth Colgate is written in the last year of Abigail’s life, and, according to the letter, during a time of poor health.