Letter from Mrs. Albert Simons (Harriott Stoney) to Amy, 6 March 1959

Scanned page 319 of Book 1 — Scan of original. Open full size →

A single sheet of printed personal stationery, the letterhead bar at the top in blue, the body in blue cursive ink.

Letterhead:

Mrs. Albert Simons 1 Tradd Street, Charleston, South Carolina

March 6th 1959.

Body:

Dear Amy:

You never need to introduce yourself to me because you were always one of the “glamour girls” of my youth. Just enough older to seem touched with the magic of grown upness you are a constant in my memory. — Also my deep affection for your Father & Mother who gave me a wonderful week or two inland when I was recuperating from one of the frequent youthful ailments.

I wish I could help you. I couldn’t so of course I turned to Sam. He sends you a straightened out file as he thinks you have…

AI Notes

First sheet of a personal letter on Mrs. Albert Simons’s printed stationery (header: ‘Mrs. Albert Simons’ left / ‘1 Tradd Street, Charleston, South Carolina’ right). Dated March 6, 1959, addressed ‘Dear Amy:’ and written in blue ink in Harriott Stoney Simons’s flowing cursive. The sender is Harriott Stoney Simons, wife of architect Albert Simons of 1 Tradd Street, née Stoney — daughter of the Charleston genealogist Samuel Gaillard Stoney and Louisa Cheves Smythe; ‘Sam’ is her brother Samuel Gaillard Stoney (the 1958 genealogist himself). Amy’s parents (the ‘Father & Mother who gave me a wonderful week or two inland’) are Samuel Gaillard FitzSimons Sr. (1856–1930) and Mary Anne Perry ‘Minnie’ FitzSimons (1859–1934). Cover-envelope and a companion magazine clipping enclosure are mounted at page 318; the letter continues onto a second sheet (the continuation on page 329, signed ‘Harriet Simons’ — same writer, the spelling ‘Harriet’ vs. ‘Harriott’ is hers). The continuation page 329 makes clear the letter was sent in response to Amy’s request for family photographs.

Letter continues onto a second sheet; the continuation, signed “Harriet Simons,” is mounted at page 329, with the accompanying family-tree sketch at page 330.