The collection is made up primarily of correspondence and legal, financial and personal documents relating to Timothy Dimock. Family correspondence includes letters to Timothy from his nephew D.D. Clark, and from son Henry to his mother Laura Dimock. General correspondence to Timothy follows the family letters. Legal documents consist of agreements and indentures, insurance records, court documents, and summons. Among the financial records are receipts, accounts, tax records and an account book. Timothy settled his father Daniel’s estate, and those records are part of the collection. Timothy’s medical career is represented by medical prescriptions and lists of ingredients for various treatments. Henry Dimock is represented by a composition entitled “Brotherhood of Man” and by financial records, 1865, 1886-1887. A number of items cannot be attributed to any one person. These include several compositions and French lessons, a wallet with an inked inscription containing several small documents and some human hair, and a small notebook and an account book. Of note in the collection are a Dimock family genealogy and a newspaper pattern for a shirt.
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