Composite page: compiler-annotated envelope of FitzSimons letters, Capt. Samuel G. Stoney portrait with Rutledge's 'Master of Medway' poem, Judge Henry Hammond portrait, Wade Hampton and George LaBruce clippings

The page is a composite of mounted items separated by empty black photo-corner mounts (some items have been removed). A pencilled annotation runs across the top edge of the entire page, above the envelope, captioning the page as a whole.

Top-edge pencilled annotation (page-wide)

[Pencilled cursive across the top edge of the page]: Cousin Sam Stoney married Louisa Smythe — She and my Father were great friends and when I made my debut Cousin Lu was my chaperone — →

[The trailing arrow suggests the note continued onto a facing leaf.]

Upper left: envelope

A small square envelope, blank except for an inked cursive inscription on its face listing the letters it once contained:

Letters from Catharine Barker & Susan M. Fitz. Simons — & 1 from Elizabeth Porcher Fitz. Simons to her daughter-in-Law — S — M. F. S.

[i.e., Letters from Catharine Barker and Susan M. FitzSimons; and one letter from Elizabeth Porcher FitzSimons to her daughter-in-law Susan M. FitzSimons (“Mrs. F. S.”).]

Upper center: portrait and poem (Master of Medway)

A halftone newspaper portrait of an elderly white-bearded man in jacket and tie. Caption beneath in small capitals:

CAPT. SAMUEL G. STONEY

Below the portrait, a clipped poem set in two columns of narrow type:

Master of Medway

S. G. S.

Master of Medway, the Pineland is waking, Glinting with dew at the rising of morn; The mist on the myrtle is bright with daybreaking,— The bayleaves with silver are shining and shaking,— The hunters are coming, with hound and with horn.

Master of Medway, the wild birds are singing, The tall pines are touching their harps of the sky; Far into Wappaoolah the mallards are winging, As down the old wood-road we hunters come swinging With laughter and jesting and hopes that are high.

Master of Medway, an old stag is started . . Down by [the] Parnassus sequestered he lay. Gallantly now he will prove he’s great-hearted… (But our loved Master from us has departed, And from Life’s hunt he has ridden away.)

Master of Medway! You’ve gone in before us; We in Life’s forest forsaken shall roam. Dear was the love that forever you bore us, Only one thing shall to gladness restore us:— When the day’s done, to rejoin you at Home.

— Archibald Rutledge.

Mercersburg, Pa., July 26, 1923.

Upper right: portrait of Judge Henry Hammond

A vignette sepia photograph of a moustached, balding gentleman, head and shoulders, looking to his right. Along the right margin, a cursive ink annotation runs vertically:

[Annotation along right margin, running vertically]: Judge Henry Hammond.

Lower right: clipping (Hampton Ended Carpetbaggers)

A small newspaper clipping with a halftone portrait of a moustached, bearded man in jacket and tie. The headline runs across the top in two lines (the leftmost letters cropped by trimming):

[Ham]pton Ended

[C]arpetbaggers

Caption beneath the portrait:

WADE HAMPTON Greatest S. C. Governor

[Faint blue-ink writing is visible through the back of the clipping, suggesting the verso of an earlier album page or letter — not legibly readable from the recto.]

Lower center: clipping (George LaBruce Will Be Ordained Monday)

A clipping with a bold two-line headline. Body text in small type:

George LaBruce Will Be Ordained Monday

Mr. LaBruce is a son of Mrs. Eugene FitzSimons LaBruce of Georgetown and the late Mr. LaBruce. He is a graduate of Winyah High School and the University of South Carolina, where he received his bachelor of arts degree. He attended the Theological School of the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., for a year.