Letter from Ellen Milliken FitzSimons to Amy Walker, October 7, 1955 — page 1
Book 1, Page 551 ·1955
Transcription
October 7, 1955
Dear Amy: —
Welcome home to our Mountains! How I wish that I could be there with you and Puck and the “year a’rounders.” There will come a day — God Willing!! It’s wonderful when so many of us are together in the mid-summer and in the midst of the Vacation time — but that time in between, when there are just a few of us — some houses dark — a light here and there — somehow in
AI Notes
First page of a two-page letter handwritten in blue fountain-pen ink on plain cream paper, dated October 7, 1955, to ‘Amy’ — the compiler Amy FitzSimons (Mrs. James Pickens Walker). The letter continues on page 552 and is signed ‘Ellen’ at the end of the second sheet. The writer is Ellen Milliken FitzSimons of the next generation — daughter of Frank Lockwood FitzSimons Sr. of Hendersonville — and librarian of the New York Public Library’s Central Circulation Branch (cf. the 1948 World-Telegram clipping on p559). The elder Ellen, the Charleston Library Society Librarian and the compiler’s paternal aunt, had died 9 July 1953 and so cannot be the writer of this 1955 letter. ‘Puck’ is the nickname for Amy’s husband James Pickens Walker Sr. ‘Our Mountains’ refers to the family’s western North Carolina summer place around Flat Rock / Hendersonville; the ‘year a’rounders’ are the year-round residents of the Mountains who remain after the summer visitors return to Charleston and elsewhere. The younger Ellen lived in New York during her library career (see p. 552).
Continues on page 552.