Letter from John McCready FitzSimons to his aunt Ellie, Hendersonville, N.C., Aug. 12, 1948 — sheet 3
Book 1, Page 519 ·1948
Transcription
[Letterhead, printed in blue at upper centre:]
BARROVIAN LODGE MRS. T. R. BARROWS OWNER HENDERSONVILLE, N. C.
TELEPHONE 326-J 305 SOUTH MAIN ST.
[Page number “(3)” in the upper-right corner.]
[Continued from page 518.]
has lost her vacation now and in her last letter to me said she would be “lucky” to spend a week end at Frank’s.
I wrote her that I would give it up rather than go to all that expense just for a week end, that if she was coming to see me, that I intended to stop in Alexandria, Va. for three (3) days on my way
AI Notes
Third sheet (numbered “(3)” in the upper-right corner) of the August 12, 1948 letter from John McCready FitzSimons (Hendersonville, N.C.) to his aunt Ellie (Ellen Milliken FitzSimons of Charleston). Same Barrovian Lodge stationery and pencil hand as pp. 517–518.
The page continues the paragraph begun at the bottom of p. 518 about Louisa de Berniere FitzSimons (the writer’s sister, here referred to by pronoun “her”): Louisa has lost her vacation, and in her last letter to John said she would “be lucky” to spend a week-end at Frank’s (i.e. Frank Lockwood FitzSimons Sr.'s ‘Golden Glow Farm’ in Hendersonville). John writes that he wrote her he would give it up rather than have her go to all that expense just for a week-end — that if she was coming to see him, he intended to stop in Alexandria, Va. for three (3) days on his way back to New York. Text breaks at “on my way” and continues on p. 520.
The pronoun “her” resolves to Louisa de Berniere FitzSimons (carrying forward from the new paragraph at the bottom of p. 518); “Frank’s” is Frank Lockwood FitzSimons Sr.'s Hendersonville home (Golden Glow Farm). Alexandria, Va. likely reflects John’s USN service connections (Washington-area naval facilities); the “Va.” is unambiguous in the scan.
Continues on page 520.