Letter to Amy, page 4 — 'After Glow' and closing
Book 1, Page 547 ·1935–1945
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really has a lot of interesting information stored up in her memory.
Sunday, a week ago, I spent at “After Glow.” Theodore, Clara and their children; also Frank and his family, were all looking remarkably well. It is only a matter of a few weeks or months when I shall be locating my permanent abode at “After Glow,” and so realize the implication of its
name. I hope when I do this it will bring us in more frequent contact than has been the case heretofore. Love to you all.Affectionately, G.S.F.
AI Notes
Fourth and final page (numbered ‘4’) of a letter to Amy, closing with ‘Affectionately, G.S.F.’ The writer recounts a Sunday visit to ‘After Glow’ with Theodore, Clara and their children, and Frank and his family, and reflects that he expects to settle permanently at After Glow within a few weeks or months. The initials G.S.F. (likely a FitzSimons) and the family circle described place this in the mid-twentieth century.
The signer G.S.F. is Gaillard Stoney FitzSimons (“Gaillie”, b. Oct 1864), the compiler Amy’s paternal uncle — one of the seven children of Dr. Christopher FitzSimons (3rd) and Susan Milliken Barker, and the youngest brother of Amy’s father Samuel Gaillard FitzSimons Sr. “After Glow” is the Hendersonville, NC family home he is preparing to retire to permanently; the Theodore (his older brother Theodore Stoney FitzSimons, “Uncle Tote”) and Frank (his nephew Frank L. FitzSimons Sr., the Hendersonville historian) who joined him there represent the postwar drift of the Charleston FitzSimonses to the NC mountains.