Compiler's caption: 'Letter to W. H. FitzSimons from Mr. Nat. Barnwell expressing sympathy over the loss of W.H.F.'s brother Samuel Gaillard FitzSimons'

An otherwise blank album page bearing only a four-line handwritten caption in dark blue ink in the compiler’s hand. The caption introduces the letter mounted on the facing page (484). The compiler’s identification of the deceased as ‘Samuel Gaillard FitzSimons’ rather than as W. Huger FitzSimons himself appears to be a slip — the letter on 484 is dated September 8, 1939, the year W. Huger died, and addresses ‘Miss FitzSimons’ (his sister Ellen) about her brother. Samuel Gaillard FitzSimons was indeed W. Huger’s brother, but his death significantly predates 1939; the brother whose loss this 1939 condolence letter actually mourns is W. Huger FitzSimons himself, and the caption is likely the compiler’s later misremembering. A small struck-through word (‘the’) appears between ‘of’ and 'W.H.F.‘s’.

The caption refers to the letter mounted on the facing page (484). See the note above: the letter is dated September 8, 1939 and addressed ‘Miss FitzSimons’ (Ellen Milliken FitzSimons) about the death of her brother. As 1939 is the year W. Huger FitzSimons himself died, the caption’s identification of the deceased as ‘Samuel Gaillard FitzSimons’ appears to be the compiler’s slip rather than the letter’s actual subject.