Section divider: index of letters from family members and from Ellie to Mr. Easterby
Book 1, Page 504 ·1900–1950
Transcription
Letter from Gaillard S. F. S.
Theodore S. F. S.
William Huger F. S.
Telegram from Kit F. S. when Ellie sailed for Europe.
Letter from Ellie to Mr. Easterby
AI Notes
A loose sheet — apparently the back of an envelope or scrap — written in pencil cursive by the compiler Amy FitzSimons (Mrs. James Pickens Walker), listing letters and a telegram from her FitzSimons aunt and uncles together with one letter Ellie wrote to J. Harold Easterby. The four FitzSimons correspondents named — Gaillard S., Theodore S., William Huger, and Kit — are siblings of Amy’s father Samuel Gaillard FitzSimons Sr.; together with Ellie they are five of the seven children of Dr. Christopher FitzSimons 3rd and Susan Milliken Barker, and so all of them are Amy’s paternal aunt and uncles. The note functions as a divider/index for items mounted nearby in the album. The ‘F. S.’ suffix is Amy’s shorthand for ‘FitzSimons’; on the first two lines the additional ‘S.’ is the middle initial ‘Stoney’ (the Stoney family name was carried as a middle name by Gaillard Stoney FitzSimons and Theodore Stoney FitzSimons — cf. the ‘Gaillard S. FitzSimons’ letterhead on p162). ‘Kit’ is the family nickname for Christopher FitzSimons Jr. (b. 26 Jan 1856), the eldest of the seven siblings. ‘Ellie’ is their sister Ellen Milliken FitzSimons (1862–1953), longtime Librarian of the Charleston Library Society; the Kit→Ellie ‘sailed for Europe’ telegram of June 16, 1911 is mounted on page 511, and Ellie’s letter to Easterby thanking him for his book follows on pages 509–510.