Letter to 'My dearest Ellen,' 12 October 1940 — describing her own 'funeral' (page 2)
Book 1, Page 538 ·1940
Transcription
[Page 2. Continued from page 537.]
grieved as I did. It was a lovely funeral — costly casket — beautiful flowers. My first shock came when a dull Presbyterian minister began the bural [sic] service. I was on my feet to protest that you were an Episcopalian. (I have very little use for the Presbyterians.) Somebody pulled me down saying it was probably an emergency, so I let it go on. My next shock came when the gentleman
AI Notes
Second sheet of the six-page Judge Hammond letter (pages 537–542), numbered ‘2’ in pencil at the top. The mock-elegiac comedy continues: he protests the Presbyterian officiant on the grounds that the dead Ellen was Episcopalian. Hammond writes ‘bural’ for ‘burial’ (preserved sic).