Letter from Mrs. Charles Franklin Martin to Amy, May 3, 1962 (page 1)
Book 1, Page 228 ·1962
Transcription
A handwritten letter, page 1 of multiple, in blue ink in a large flowing cursive hand. The letterhead is printed in blue script at the top center:
Mrs. Charles Franklin Martin 3219 Heyward Street Columbia, South Carolina
A date in the writer’s hand at upper right:
May 3, 1962
Dear Amy —
Your letter was a very pleasant surprise, ^I
youwould have heard from me sooner, but I have been completely swamped with a guest from Texas, & a round of parties over the week end. I do not have but the one copy of my story as published by the State.
AI Notes
Page 1 of a handwritten letter in blue ink on personal letterhead reading ‘Mrs. Charles Franklin Martin / 3219 Heyward Street / Columbia, South Carolina’. Dated May 3, 1962, addressed to ‘Dear Amy’. Mrs. Martin apologizes for the delay (a guest from Texas, a round of parties over the weekend) and notes that she has only the one copy of her story as published by the State. The letter continues onto a subsequent page.
Letter continues on the next page. The writer first wrote “you would have heard” and corrected it by striking “you” and inserting “I” above the line.
The writer is Margaret Rhett Martin (1891–1982), wife of Charles Franklin Martin of Columbia, S.C., and the author of the 1963 USC Press collection Charleston Ghosts — eighteen tales of Charleston hauntings. The “story as published by the State” she mentions is an early newspaper version of one of those tales, picked up in correspondence here with Amy as part of the album’s late-1950s/1960s Charleston-lore exchanges.