Letter from Gaillard S. FitzSimons to Major Theodore G. Barker, April 26, 1909 (page 1)
Book 1, Page 162 ·1909
Transcription
A handwritten letter on printed business letterhead in dark brown ink. The letterhead reads:
SPARTANBURG OIL MILL BRANCH OF SOUTHERN COTTON OIL CO. MANUFACTURERS OF COTTON SEED PRODUCTS
G. S. FITZSIMONS Manager
SPARTANBURG, S.C.
The body:
April 26, 1909.
Major Theo. G. Barker,
Charleston, S.C.
Dear Uncle Theodore,
Replying to your letter of 24th inst.: We shall all have a sentiment of deep regret at the passing of Mulberry from your possession; at the same time I am very glad to hear that you are about to put through a sale of the property, hoping that it will bring relief from money strain. I have not been to Mulberry since I was about 15 years old and my recollection of the individual pieces of furniture is very hazy. Not owning a home I have kept myself stripped to the necessities in the way of house furnishings and think it wiser
AI Notes
Page 1 of a two-page handwritten letter on the printed letterhead of the Spartanburg Oil Mill (Branch of Southern Cotton Oil Co., Manufacturers of Cotton Seed Products). Letterhead also names G. S. FitzSimons as Manager. Dated Spartanburg, S.C., April 26, 1909, addressed to ‘Major Theo. G. Barker, Charleston, S.C.’, opening ‘Dear Uncle Theodore’. The writer responds to a letter of the 24th about the impending sale of the Mulberry property. The letter continues onto the next page (163).
Letter continues on page 163.
The writer is Gaillard Stoney FitzSimons (“Gaillie,” b. c. 1863), one of the children of Christopher FitzSimons (3rd) + Susan Milliken Barker; by 1909 he was managing the Spartanburg Oil Mill, a branch of the Southern Cotton Oil Co. “Uncle Theodore” is his maternal uncle Theodore Gaillard Barker (1832–1917) — the Hampton’s Legion adjutant who took up rice-planting at Mulberry on the Cooper River after the war, and is here, at age 77, preparing to sell the plantation and its contents. “Aunt Louisa” is TGB’s wife Louisa Preston King.