Envelope/wrapper with compiler's caption: letters of Ellen Barker Porcher
Book 1, Page 246 ·1860–1866
Transcription
The album page is mostly blank. Three brass paper-clips are visible along the top margin. At the lower right a folded white envelope (the wrapper for the letters that follow) is mounted on the page. Written on its visible front in the compiler’s hand, in blue ink, is the following caption:
Letters written by Ellen Barker Porcher to her mother — Mrs. Samuel Gaillard Barker, and to her sister Susan Barker FitzSimons. The FitzSimons boys had been sent to their auntie’s to stay until the new baby arrived — The new baby was another boy — William Huger FitzSimons
AI Notes
An otherwise blank album page with three brass paper-clips along the top margin (the page evidently held additional items before the album was rebound). A white envelope is mounted at the lower right; written on its front in blue ink in the compiler’s hand (Amy FitzSimons / Mrs. James Pickens Walker) is a caption introducing the sequence of family letters that follows — the typed transcripts on pp. 249–250, and the longer pencilled note in the compiler’s hand on pp. 247–248. The caption names the writer of the letters (Ellen Barker Porcher), her mother Mrs. Samuel Gaillard Barker (= Ellen Milliken Barker), and her sister Susan Barker FitzSimons (the compiler’s grandmother “Sis”), and explains that Sam and Kit FitzSimons had been sent to their aunt’s house in the country to stay until the new baby — William Huger FitzSimons — had arrived.
The compiler’s longer pencilled note introducing this same letter run continues on pp. 247–248; the typewritten transcripts of Aunt Ellen’s letters themselves begin on p. 249.