Empty envelope addressed to Mrs. Donald M. Allston Jr., John's Island, S.C., postmarked June 29, 1965, annotated 'Tribute to W.H.F.S.'
Book 1, Page 479 ·1965
Transcription
A pale stamped envelope mounted on an otherwise blank album page.
Pre-printed stamp and postmark (upper right):
A 5-cent blue United States embossed stamp with the profile of John F. Kennedy, beside a circular postmark:
JOHNS / JUN 29 / PM / 1965 / S.C.
Address (centre, in dark cursive ink):
Mrs. Donald M. Allston, Jr. Bohicket Road John’s Island, S.C. 29455 —
Pencilled annotations (in the compiler’s hand):
At the upper left:
John’s Island, S.C. 29455
At the centre-left:
Tribute to W. H. F. S.
AI Notes
A pale stamped envelope mounted alone on the album page. The envelope is pre-franked with a 5-cent blue United States embossed Kennedy stamp at the upper right and bears a circular Johns Island, S.C. postmark dated JUN 29 1965. Addressed in dark cursive ink to Mrs. Donald M. Allston Jr., Bohicket Road, John’s Island, S.C. 29455. Two pencil annotations: at the upper left ‘John’s Island, S.C. 29455’, and at the centre-left ‘Tribute to W.H.F.S.’ indicating that the envelope had once held a tribute to William Huger FitzSimons (likely the obituary clipping mounted on the facing page 481). The envelope is creased and edge-worn.
“W. H. F. S.” is William Huger FitzSimons (1861–1939), the Charleston attorney whose 1939 obituary clipping is mounted on the facing page (481). The envelope was sent to Mrs. Donald M. Allston Jr. (Mary Annie FitzSimons Allston, “Minnie”) at her Bohicket Road home on John’s Island; she was W. Huger’s niece. The 5-cent Kennedy stamp dates the cover to 1965, a quarter-century after W. Huger’s death — the compiler kept the envelope because it once held a memorial tribute clipping.