Letter from 'Minnie,' Thursday A.M. — closing page 3, signed Minnie (Lucia letter)
Book 1, Page 360 ·1920–1950
Transcription
The closing sheet of the letter begun on page 358. Page number 3 at the top center. Blue cursive on cream wove paper.
[line] every now and then.
Siza is at home and looks pretty good but a long way from well, am afraid.
It’s good to think of you all up there together — we are blessed in many ways, and to me that’s one of the greatest, having a loving, loyal family. Love to you and yours, and all the other families.
Minnie
Tell Jim and Kay I hope by now they have the whole yard clean — and that we’ll need another garbage pit dug. — [Hay] leaves to-day and who can tell the night Jim and Anna had?
AI Notes
Third and closing sheet of the ‘Thursday A.M.’ letter begun on page 358 and continued on 359. Page number 3 plainly inscribed at the top center. The letter is signed Minnie (mid-page). The lower half of the sheet carries a postscript on Jim, Kay, and Anna; the very bottom of the sheet is blank. The first line completes the page-359 sentence as ‘tell grandaddy to send a line every now and then’ (the writer is asking grandaddy to write occasionally). The PS names Jim, Kay, and Anna. ‘Siza’ is uncertain in reading (could be a nickname or shortened form — preserved as written). Signature ‘Minnie’ clearly legible. Same hand as pp. 355–356 (also signed ‘Minnie’) and pp. 358–359. If this ‘Minnie’ is the compiler’s mother Mary Anne Perry FitzSimons (1859–1934), the letter dates from before January 1934; handwriting comparison to her dated 1933 letters in book-002 (pp. 091–096) flagged for confirmation. The Lucia named throughout the letter (pp. 358–359) is the subject; her death is not yet established in the archive.
Letter ends here. The lower third of the sheet is blank.