Letter from Theodore (Barker FitzSimons), 1 October 1918 — closing leaf, signed 'Theodore'
Book 1, Page 344 ·1918
Transcription
The closing leaf of the letter. Brown ink in cursive on a single page. Continues from page 343.
…they happen to send him there?
There is nothing to write from this side and it is hard to make a letter interesting when there is no news.
There is a little boy in the next village that looks just like Pickens.
Love to you all
Theodore
AI Notes
Closing leaf of the letter begun on page 342 (dated ‘Oct 1st, 1918, Dear Sister’) and continued on page 343 (the inner bifolium with the Virginia / Percy / Naval Reserve passage). Brown-ink cursive on a single sheet, faded at the folds. Signed ‘Theodore’ — Theodore Barker FitzSimons (b. 8 July 1890), Amy’s younger brother, then a corporal with the 464th Engineers Pontoon Train, A.E.F. in France (see the censored Soldiers Mail envelope on page 340). The ‘little boy in the next village that looks just like Pickens’ is a wartime sighting that reminds Theodore of his nephew James Pickens Walker Jr. (‘Pucci’, b. 1912). The word ‘interesting’ is written across two lines as ‘inter-/-esting’ in the original.
The ‘Pickens’ referenced is the writer’s nephew James Pickens Walker Jr. (b. 1912), Amy’s elder surviving son, known in the family as ‘Pucci.’