Letter from Amy P. FitzSimons in Spartanburg to Helen, October 18, 1900 (page 1)
Book 2, Page 22 ·1900
Transcription
Spartanburg Oct. 18th 1900
Dear Helen
I received your letter yesterday and I will be very glad to stand for you. I have grown a little this summer, I think that it is about time, do you not think so too? Miss Emmie passed through here the other day, we did not know that she was to pass through and so we did not see her. I suppose that Harriott is to stand with me. The baby is trying very hard to walk and talk, we got a little black kitten four days ago and now the baby can call kitty. The other afternoon I did not have anything to do and so I
AI Notes
First page of a child’s letter, written in pencil cursive on plain unlined paper, dated ‘Spartanburg / Oct. 18th 1900’ and signed on the following album page (023) ‘Amy P. Fitz Simons’. The writer — Amy Ann Perry FitzSimons, the album’s eventual compiler, about twelve years old at the time of writing — agrees to ‘stand for’ her correspondent Helen, i.e. serve as her bridesmaid or attendant. She mentions a missed visit from ‘Miss Emmie’ who passed through Spartanburg without their knowledge, that ‘Harriott’ is to stand with her, and family news: the baby trying to walk and talk, a new black kitten, and an afternoon helping the people pick cotton. The letter is in a careful schoolgirl hand.
Letter continues on page 023.
Amy Ann Perry FitzSimons was born in 1888 and so was about twelve in October 1900. The original spelling and punctuation (no apostrophe in “loveing,” no comma after “Spartanburg”) are preserved on the following page.