Letter from Harriott Stoney Simons to Amy, 6 March 1959 — second sheet (signature page)
Book 1, Page 329 ·1959
Transcription
A single sheet of plain notepaper, covered with blue-ink cursive, no letterhead. Signed lower right.
The generations a bit jumbled in your letter — Neither he nor I have any idea of where any such pictures might be. After Mother’s death we tried to go through the mammoth collection of papers, photographs etc. with discrimination & to leave wherever possible [sent?] the things to the appropriate people. So while neither Jno [John] remembers any such photographs we feel sure that had there been any they would have been disposed of in 1939.
I am taking the liberty of sending your letter to Mary Whitford Brecht on the chance that she may have something. Please let us know when you are next in Charleston so that we may renew our acquaintance in person. Cordially Harriet Simons.
AI Notes
Second (continuation) sheet of the letter whose first sheet is mounted at page 319. Plain notepaper, blue ink in the same hand, signed at lower right ‘Harriet Simons.’ (the writer spells her own name both ‘Harriott’ on the printed stationery and ‘Harriet’ in signature). Discusses Amy’s request for old family photographs: neither the writer nor ‘Jno’ (her brother John — Sam, Samuel Gaillard Stoney — see page 330) remembers any such pictures, since after their mother’s death in 1939 they tried to redistribute the family papers and photographs ‘to the appropriate people.’ The writer forwards Amy’s enquiry to Mary Vaux Whitford (Mrs. Harold Brecht) of Germantown, Pa. Enclosed with this letter was the family-tree sketch reproduced at page 330. ‘Jno’ is preserved as written — the standard 19th-c. abbreviation for ‘John.’