Letter from Aunt Ellen FitzSimons to her mother (continuation, undated)

Two facing pages of a handwritten letter, pasted side by side, continuing from the previous scan. Written in cursive in ink.

parlor till he came for us. We then took the street cars that go through Peach tree Sts., took to the end of the line & back. took another line of street cars that took us a mile & half out of the city to a cemetery where we were told we would see a Confederate monument & the Grady vault. We did see them, but we also saw what we enjoyed much more, the flowers & ferns in some green houses, hyacinths, tulips, & roses in bloom. & that beautiful asparagus fern growing up on canes from the pots on the floor to the roof of the green house, from one end to the other. The shelves of this green house were full of the loveliest maiden hair fern. When we

got back, Wm. Stiles went off to see some friends. Sarabel & I did a little shopping just so as to go into the stores. I bought a face veil & she bought a pr. of gloves. Then we went back to the hotel had a nice dinner, & then to the depot to take our train. Mr. Stiles put us on the train & told us good bye. We had a comfortable night on the sleeper & arrived half after eight at New Orleans where Sally & her cousin a young Warley met us, took us to the town house where we had breakfast. After breakfast we helped Sally for a while (she was very busy packing up & fixing up the house to rent) then we Sarabel & I went out shopping, & went