Letter from Ellie at Hendersonville, N.C. to her sister Amy, October 26, 1948 (page 1 of 4)
Book 1, Page 505 ·1948
Transcription
Hendersonville, N. C. Oct 26, 1948
Dear Sister,
The whole landscape up here is ablaze with color. Even for the mountain region hereabouts, the display is beyond the usual, and raises the question, “Can it ever be as grand and gorgeous again?” Long years of experience reassures us, especially those of us who look back to Mills River days, and we can answer “Yes,” knowing that each normal fall seems to be the most wonderful yet; and next October you and I will be saying “no other October could have been as beautiful as this one.” It is a wonderful
AI Notes
First sheet of a four-page letter (pp. 505–508) in blue ink on lined paper from Ellen Milliken FitzSimons (‘Ellie’, the recently-retired Charleston Library Society Librarian — see p501) to her sister, the album’s compiler Amy FitzSimons (Mrs. James Pickens Walker). Dated ‘Hendersonville, N. C., Oct 26, 1948,’ opening ‘Dear Sister.’ Ellie writes about the autumn color in the western North Carolina mountains and recalls earlier ‘Mills River days’ (a reference to the family’s earlier summers near the Mills River valley in Henderson County, N.C., a long-time refuge for Charleston families escaping the lowcountry heat). Page 1 of 4.
Continues on page 506.