Letter from Henry C. Hammond to Ellen FitzSimons — page 2 with signature ('take them to the real Ellen')

Concluding page of a letter on yellowed paper, signed ‘Henry C. Hammond’ and addressed at the bottom ‘Miss Ellen FitzSimons / Charleston / South Carolina.’ Page numbered ‘2’ at top. The closing anecdote recounts a humorous exchange in which Mrs. Graham asks to carry the flowers off the grave to ‘the real Ellen,’ and Hammond replies that he ‘did not know there was such an Ellen on earth — take them to the real Ellen with all my love.’ The signer Henry C. Hammond is Judge Henry C. Hammond of Augusta, Ga. (cf. pages 537–542, the six-page 12 Oct 1940 ‘funeral’ letter signed by the same hand and retelling the same ‘real Ellen’ family joke); the date range is consistent with the 1940 funeral letter as a companion piece. ‘Fitz Simons’ in the address line is standardized to one-word ‘FitzSimons’ in metadata, preserving Hammond’s spaced spelling in the body block. Mrs. Graham’s question ends at ‘take them off the grave?’ and ‘Well yes’ is Hammond’s reply.