Letter from Ellie to Mr. Easterby thanking him for his book (page 1 of 2)
Book 1, Page 509 ·1935–1950
Transcription
Dear Mr. Easterby:
I have wanted ever since I received your book to write and thank you for it & for y[ou]r so kind expression of the help that I gave you which was so little compared to what I wished to do, feeling it a great privilege, for I realised what a great opportunity it was to make an outstanding & most important contribution to our history.
You surely have availed yourself of this opportunity bringing all y[ou]r ability, the long stored up knowledge of our history, the tireless energy & [time?] required to sift & render the essentials of a [large] mass of important [documents] materials enterprising them by careful arrangement, [indexing] & most significant notes, so that
as thatthe result is one of the most important contributions
AI Notes
First sheet of a two-page letter (continues on p. 510) in blue ink on lined paper from Ellen Milliken FitzSimons (‘Ellie’, Charleston Library Society Librarian) to J. Harold Easterby (1898–1960) — Charleston historian, secretary-treasurer of the South Carolina Historical Society, later director of the South Carolina Archives — thanking him for sending her his recently-published book and an inscription praising the help she had given him. Ellie’s hand shows several interlineated revisions inserted small above the line: ‘large’ inserted before ‘mass’ (a large mass of important materials); ‘documents’ added above ‘materials’; ‘indexing’ inserted above ‘arrangement’; and a struck word (‘as’ or ‘that’) before ‘the result’. Continues on page 510.
Continues on page 510.