Letter from 'Grannie' to Mary Anne, Monday — page 2 (closing)

Second sheet of the cursive letter begun on page 416, in the same dark-ink late-life cursive hand. The numeral ‘2’ is pencilled at the upper-left margin to mark sheet order. The lower half of the sheet is blank; the writing fills only the top third. Signed ‘Grannie.’ On the basis of the letter’s content (the writer sending Mary Anne ‘memories of when I was a little girl,’ a typescript already identified as Amy Perry FitzSimons’s Childhood Reminiscences on page 414) and the surviving signature, the writer is tentatively Mary Ann Walker’s maternal grandmother Mary Anne Perry FitzSimons (‘Minnie’, 1859–1934) — the same ‘Minnie’ who signs the eighth-birthday letter on pages 426/428/427.

The “memories of when I was a little girl” enclosure referenced on page 416 is presumably the typescript “Childhood Reminiscences” signed Amy Perry FitzSimons visible on page 414. The signature here (“Grannie”) matches the writer of the eighth-birthday letter on pp 426/428/427 (signed “Minnie”) in handwriting style; both are most likely Mary Anne Perry FitzSimons writing to her granddaughter Mary Ann Walker.