Closing fragment of handwritten letter from Ellen — Hector and 'Daddy Hicry'

Final page of a handwritten letter signed ‘yours aff[ectionate]ly Ellen —’. The writer reports having convinced ‘them’ of the feasibility of the plan; they are completely gulled, call Hector ‘Daddy Hicry’ and make all sorts of demands on him about the pigs. She tells the recipient to keep a broom, a bottle of Ink, and her furs that she left in town — she is not in want of any of them — and sends love to Father and Kate. The orphaned page sits between the typed Aunt Ellen Porcher transcripts (247–250) and the Wade Hampton 1896 letter (252–253); its opening pages are not present in this run, so the recipient and full date are unrecoverable from this leaf alone.

The signer is almost certainly Ellen Milliken Barker Porcher (Aunt Ellen Porcher), whose typed-transcript letters from White Hall to her sister Susan FitzSimons fill the surrounding pp. 247-250 and 264-270. The “Hector” the boys nickname “Daddy Hicry” is presumably one of the enslaved or hired men of the White Hall household.