Letter from Ellen M. FitzSimons to Amy, Jan. 1, 1948 — page 1 of 2
Book 1, Page 495 ·1948
Transcription
Jan 1, 1948 Happy New Year 4 Savage St
MISS ELLEN M. FITZSIMONS 4 SAVAGE STREET CHARLESTON, S. C.
Dear Amy:
How I wish that you & Anne & Pickens could have been with us on Dec. 26th when we decided to celebrate our Xmas as Louisa could not get here until early that morning. It is the one day in the year that I can have company now for Julia & I are not young & conditions are such that I have to make it as easy as I can for her (Julia) to take care of me. Reginald came with Marguerite & Robert Preston — was that not nice — Louisa went down with Minnie Allston to Willtown Bluff for the next day as I had to be at the Library & she came back for Sat. & left us Sunday afternoon.
SundaySaturday aft. Bo & Sissy & Frankie & Mother & Ted came in & it was a very lively gathering of
AI Notes
A single sheet of writing paper with printed return address ‘MISS ELLEN M. FITZSIMONS / 4 SAVAGE STREET / CHARLESTON, S. C.’ at the top center. Dated ‘Jan 1, 1948 Happy New Year’ across the top, with ‘4 Savage St’ written at the upper right. Written in blue ink in a sloping cursive hand. Letter from Aunt Ellen (Ellen Milliken FitzSimons, the Charleston Library Society librarian) to her niece Amy, describing the family Christmas gathering held on Dec. 26th. ‘Willtown Bluff’ is Mt. Hope, the FitzSimons plantation on the Edisto inherited by Mary Annie / Minnie Allston. The ‘Julia’ inserted in parentheses above the line clarifies the pronoun ‘her’. Continues on p. 496.
Letter continues on page 496. ‘Willtown Bluff’ = the family plantation Mt. Hope on the Edisto, inherited by Amy’s sister Mary Annie FitzSimons Allston (“Minnie”) — Louisa is going home with Minnie for the night. ‘Reginald’ is Reginald FitzSimons (b. 1898, son of William Huger FitzSimons), brother of Marguerite who married Dr. Robert Preston.