Handwritten letter fragment, 'Dear Sis,' on Theodore's note and Thomas's death
Book 1, Page 118
Transcription
A handwritten letter fragment in brown ink on a small piece of lined paper, written in a flowing cursive across the full width. The page begins with a salutation at the upper left and breaks off mid-sentence at the bottom. A small ink-bleed stain is visible toward the upper right.
Dear Sis — I send you all over — so much joy and so much sorrow. — I delay one day to send you a copy of Theodore’s note in pencil on a piece of paper about 4 inches square & on which he had been calculations or figures. — About Thomas I feel as if I had dreamt he told me what he has written. — 'Tis impossible to realize that he is dead. — It was to get letters from the Barrow that I delay’d the day. — We are well. — Mrs Sam’l Heyward & her sister Miss Rhett I may have before written are in this house & on the Same Passage with us — We have become quite familiarly sociable & regret that tomorrow they will leave for Columbia
AI Notes
A handwritten letter fragment in brown ink on a small sheet of lined paper, addressed ‘Dear Sis.’ The writer sends both ‘joy and sorrow,’ enclosing a copy of Theodore’s pencilled note (written on a roughly 4-inch-square scrap that already bore calculations or figures), and grieves over Thomas’s death — finding it impossible to realize. She had delayed a day to wait for letters ‘from the Barrow.’ Mrs. Sam’l Heyward and her sister Miss Rhett, whom she may have written of before, are lodging in the same house and on the same passage, and leave next day for Columbia. The right edge shows an ink-bleed stain near the upper corner; the sheet breaks off mid-sentence.
Letter continues on next page or breaks off; sheet ends mid-sentence.