Letter of condolence to Miss FitzSimons from 32 Broad St., Charleston, September 8, 1939, on the death of her brother

A folded letter sheet shown opened. The right-hand leaf is the first page; the left-hand leaf is the conclusion.

Right leaf — dateline, salutation, and first part:

32 Broad St. Charleston. S.C. Sept. 8. 1939.

My Dear Miss FitzSimons.

I was distressed to read in the morning’s paper of the death of your brother and cannot tell you how much I regret that an important engagement for 12 o’clock with a gentleman out of town prevented my attending the funeral. He was I believe the best loved by his fellow lawyers of all the members of the Bar during the years that he practised and in spite of many years absence which his illness kept him from Charleston. His memory is still green amongst those who knew him. He had the unusual faculty of being fearlessly…

Left leaf — continuation and signature:

…aggressive in advocating the rights of a client and yet never antagonising or arousing any personal animosity in his opponent. His modesty and the unassuming manner he had which concealed his great force as an advocate endeared him greatly to both the lawyers and the judges with whom he was thrown and the kind of simple and straightforward honesty which was his has been notably missing since he left Broad Street — Realize that for many years his life was of labor and sorrow and that his passing may have been a release to him; but we are all so constituted that we cannot but sorrow over the loss of those we love.

With deepest sympathy Sincerely [signed] Nath. B. Barnwell