Letter from Cousin Josie, Charleston, April 23, 1910 — page 1
Book 1, Page 626 ·1910
Transcription
Charleston S. C.
April 23/1910
Dear Cousin Min,
I am sending you the Perry lines as nearly as I can make
themout; that is those in which we areinterested. I hope that it will be clear to you, and interesting.It has been fascinating work to me looking up these old dead and gone people. I always feel a certain kind of intimacy with
them, and as if I really knew old grandmother Rosamond andtheothers personally. Such different people they seemed to us and I envy them their quiet, placid lives, free from the hustle and bustle of these[continued on page 627]
AI Notes
Two-page handwritten letter on plain unlined paper, dated Charleston, April 23, 1910, addressed to ‘Dear Cousin Min’ (Mary Anne Perry ‘Mam’mie’ / ‘Minnie’ FitzSimons, the compiler Amy’s mother) and signed ‘Josie’ on the following page. The writer is sending the Perry family lines she has compiled (the chart on pages 624–625) and reflects on the pleasure of genealogical research, recalling ‘old grandmother Rosamond’ (a shared maternal ancestor in the Perry line). Continuation on page 627. Strike-through markup reflects the manuscript — the writer’s pen corrects herself several times.
“Cousin Min” is the compiler’s mother Mary Anne Perry “Minnie” FitzSimons (d. 1934). “Josie” is almost certainly the same Perry cousin who compiled the fold-out Perry pedigree on pp. 624–625 (attributed there to “Mrs. Joseph J. Waring”); this letter is its cover note. “Old grandmother Rosamond” is Rosamond Miles, who married the first Edward Perry on 11 December 1723 — the shared ancestor at the top of the chart Josie has just finished drafting.