Postal Telegraph 'PERFECT DAY' greeting from Tote and Gaillie to Ellen M. FitzSimons, 14 May 1935
Book 1, Page 512 ·1935
Transcription
A Postal Telegraph — The International System message form, printed in dark blue ink on a brittle yellowed sheet, the centre dressed with the company’s globe-and-cables vignette and the heading “Postal Telegraph” in display script. A pasted yellow address strip below the header carries the typed routing information; further pasted strips below carry the message body and signature.
Postal Telegraph THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM
Commercial Cables — All America Cables — Mackay Radio
RECEIVED AT POSTAL TELEGRAPH BLDG., 151 EAST BAY ST., CHARLESTON, S.C. TELEPHONES CALL “POSTAL.” STANDARD TIME INDICATED ON THIS MESSAGE.
Form 16
1935 MAY 14 AM 8 47
AG22 26 DL CGTL=SPARTANBURG SCAR 14 806A
MISS ELLEN M FITZSIMONS=
4 SAVAGE ST CHARLESTON SCAR=
GREETINGS FROM TWO OLD SPORTS WHOSE HEARTS TODAY BEAT AS ONE AND WHOSE MINDS HAVE BUT A SINGLE THOUGHT IN WISHING FOR YOU A PERFECT DAY=
TOTE AND GAILLIE…
Telephone Your Telegrams to Postal Telegraph
AI Notes
A Postal Telegraph — The International System message form, the blue-bordered company stationery (Commercial Cables — All America Cables — Mackay Radio). The yellow address strip below the printed letterhead bears a 26-word Day Letter (DL) filed from Spartanburg, S.C. on 14 May 1935 at 8:06 a.m., received at the Postal Telegraph Bldg., 151 East Bay St., Charleston, S.C., at 8:47 a.m. (date-stamp “1935 MAY 14 AM 8 47”). Form 16. Addressed to Miss Ellen M. FitzSimons at 4 Savage Street, Charleston — the Charleston Library Society Librarian and matriarch of the FitzSimons sibling group. Signed jointly by her brothers Tote (Theodore Stoney FitzSimons) and Gaillie (Gaillard Stoney FitzSimons, of Spartanburg — the compiler Amy’s father, see pp 287, 442). The message is a birthday- or anniversary-style greeting, almost certainly congratulating Ellen on the conferral of her honorary L.L.D. from the College of Charleston (offered to her on 28 March 1935 and conferred that May, see pp 513, 529 — the conferral being approximately this date). The senders Tote and Gaillie are Theodore Stoney FitzSimons and Gaillard Stoney FitzSimons, both Ellen’s brothers.
The senders are Ellen’s brothers Theodore Stoney FitzSimons (“Tote”, see p. 524 for the canonical nickname) and Gaillard Stoney FitzSimons (“Gaillie” / “Gillie”, of Spartanburg — see pp 287, 442 — who was also the compiler Amy FitzSimons Walker’s father).