Envelope from Historic Charleston Foundation, addressed to Mrs. J. P. Walker, forwarded to S. G. Stoney, 1968
Book 1, Page 444 ·1968
Transcription
A business envelope from the Historic Charleston Foundation, used as a wrapper for a Stoney genealogical chart and forwarded between two recipients before finally reaching Amy FitzSimons Walker.
Printed return address (upper left)
HISTORIC CHARLESTON FOUNDATION 51 Meeting Street, Charleston, South Carolina
Decorative cachet (lower left)
A small colour lithograph showing the interior of a Charleston drawing room: a man in white wig, dark coat and breeches stands at a music stand conducting, an instrument case open at his side; behind him a tall sash window and the corner of a piano-forte.
Postage and postmark (upper right)
Two 3-cent purple “Statue of Liberty” stamps tied with a circular black postmark reading CHARLESTON, S.C. / [date illegible] / 1968.
Pencil notations across the top
S.G. STONEY 24 X In 22 k
Stoney Chart
Original typed address (centre)
Mr. Samuel G. Stoney [number illegible]X Budd St., Charleston, S. C.
[The typed address has been struck through in blue ballpoint and the envelope re-addressed by hand.]
First handwritten redirection (in blue ballpoint)
Mrs. J. P. Walker 3698 Hemlock Ave. Jacksonville Florida
Second handwritten redirection (in darker ink)
115 S. Main St. Philippi, W. Va.
AI Notes
A printed business envelope from the Historic Charleston Foundation, 51 Meeting Street, Charleston, South Carolina, with a colour-lithograph illustration in the lower-left corner showing an interior view of a Charleston drawing room with a man in 18th-century dress conducting from a music stand. The envelope bears two 3-cent purple ‘Statue of Liberty’ postage stamps and a Charleston, S.C. postmark dated 1968. The original typed address is to ‘Mr. Samuel G. Stoney, [number illegible] Budd St., Charleston, S. C.’ The envelope was crossed through and re-addressed in blue ballpoint to ‘Mrs. J. P. Walker, 3698 Hemlock Ave., Jacksonville Florida’, then re-routed once more in a different ink to ‘115 S. Main St., Philippi, W. Va.’ Across the top above the address area, in pencil, the notations ‘S. G. Stoney / 24 X In 22 / k’ and ‘Stoney Chart’ are written, identifying the contents as a Stoney family chart.
The envelope was first sent from the Historic Charleston Foundation to Samuel Gaillard Stoney (b. 1891, d. 1968), the Charleston author and architectural historian, then redirected after his death to his cousin Amy FitzSimons Walker in Jacksonville, Florida, and at last forwarded to Philippi, W. Va. — apparently the address of a Walker descendant. The contents, a “Stoney Chart,” are not preserved in the album.
Samuel Gaillard Stoney was the author of Plantations of the Carolina Low Country (1938) and other works on Charleston architecture, and a founding figure in the city’s mid-century preservation movement; the Historic Charleston Foundation (the envelope’s sender) was incorporated in 1947 and is one of the oldest local preservation organizations in the U.S. The same Stoney mailed Amy a multi-sheet handwritten Stoney genealogy on 30 June 1958 (album pages 461–466).