Christmas letter from Clara FitzSimons to Amy — second leaf
Book 1, Page 346 ·1950–1970
Transcription
A single sheet of blue ballpoint cursive on cream paper, no letterhead. Continues from page 345.
Anne, Bill and Fitz spent the week end before Christmas here — They spent a few days in Va. — for Christmas. They are very happy. Anne works in a hospital at High Point — commuting — and likes it.
I’m hoping Mary Jane and Ted may get up for a day and night, but that’s doubtful. Ted is so anxious to finish and get established — poor thing. It has been a long pull.
Amy, of course, is firmly anchored — fine reasons! She called me Christmas day.
And Janice and Tim are in cold Mass. — I know Janice has n’t been warm since she landed, she’s always shivering in cold weather. But they seem happy and Tim finds his work interesting.
I had to forego the pleasure of gift giving this year — a real depriva-
AI Notes
Second leaf of Clara FitzSimons’s Christmas letter to her sister-in-law Amy, continuing from page 345 and itself continued on page 347. Blue ballpoint cursive on plain cream paper (no letterhead — an unheaded continuation sheet). Mentions of ‘Anne, Bill and Fitz’, ‘Mary Jane and Ted’, and ‘Janice and Tim’ refer to Clara’s children and grandchildren — ‘Mary Jane and Ted’ are Mary Jane Flanagan and Theodore Barker FitzSimons Jr. (married 26 Dec 1941); ‘Anne’ is Anne Sabina FitzSimons (Clara’s daughter, b. 1928) with her husband ‘Bill’ and a child ‘Fitz’. ‘Amy’ here is Clara’s daughter Amy Perry FitzSimons (b. 1930, m. J. C. Granger Sr. 1951), not the addressee. Clara writes the contraction ‘has n’t’ split across spaces.
Sentence continues onto page 347. ‘Amy’ in this paragraph is Clara’s daughter Amy Perry FitzSimons (b. 1930, married J. C. Granger Sr. 1951) — not the addressee ‘Amy’ of the letter. ‘Ted’ is Clara’s son Theodore Barker FitzSimons Jr.; he was completing graduate work at the University of Georgia in the early 1950s, which would date the letter to that period.