Letter fragment — niece Ellen to Aunt Ellen, Easter plans and August vacation
Book 1, Page 527 ·1940–1950
Transcription
[Single sheet, undated and without salutation — a middle or closing leaf of a longer letter to Aunt Ellen.]
I will probably go to an early service 7:30 or 8 o’clock Easter morning with Mickey, then have breakfast at some nice place with her — and in the afternoon go for a bus ride with the Edwards. — Monday is Libby’s Birtsday, so I have tickets for the Theatre as her present. We all enjoy that more than anything else we can do.
I have my vacation in August this year — and will probably come straight to Charleston as I did last year for my visit with you — and then up to the mountains.
Lots and lots of love to you, old Sweetie —
Ellen
AI Notes
Single sheet, blue fountain-pen ink on cream paper, written on one side only. The letter has no salutation or date visible on this sheet — it is a middle or closing leaf of a longer letter to Aunt Ellen (Ellen Milliken FitzSimons, the Charleston Library Society librarian). The writer signs herself ‘Ellen’ (a niece) and describes plans for an early Easter service with Mickey, a bus ride with the Edwards in the afternoon, and a theatre outing for Libby’s birthday on Easter Monday as her present. She closes with her August vacation plans: come straight to Charleston as last year, then up to the mountains. The same writer’s hand and style as pp. 525–526 (April 1943 Easter letter) and pp. 530–531 (July 1948 letter on Virginia Rugheimer succeeding Aunt Ellen at the Library) — likely a New-York-based niece. The writer’s idiosyncratic capitalisation (‘Theatre,’ ‘Birtsday’) is preserved.
Likely the same niece-writer as pp. 525–526 (April 1943) and pp. 530–531 (July 1948) — a New-York-based ‘Ellen’ whose annual pattern is summer visit to Charleston then on to the North Carolina mountains. The ‘Edwards’ are friends/family in her northern circle; ‘Mickey’ and ‘Libby’ likewise are New-York friends.