Letter from Amy P. FitzSimons in Spartanburg to Helen, October 18, 1900 (page 2)
Book 2, Page 23 ·1900
Transcription
went into the cotton field and helped the people pick cotton. We went to the dog and pony show on Tuesday and we are going to the circus on
Friday. I am reading a very nice book now called the Scottish Chiefs. Give my love to Miss Kate and Hettie.Your loveing little friend Amy P. Fitz Simons
AI Notes
Second and concluding page of the letter from page 022. Continues in the same schoolgirl pencil cursive on faintly ruled paper and is signed ‘Amy P. Fitz Simons’ (two words, capital S in ‘Simons’). The writer describes going into the cotton field to help pick cotton, attending a dog-and-pony show on Tuesday, planning to go to the circus on Friday, and currently reading ‘The Scottish Chiefs.’ She sends love to Miss Kate and Hettie. The lower two-thirds of the sheet is blank lined paper. The word ‘Friday’ near the top is struck through with a single horizontal line; no replacement is written, so the writer apparently crossed it out without correction (or the strike is in fact a faint paper rule overlying the word — both readings are plausible). Amy’s age in 1900 was about twelve, as her birth year was 1888.
The lower portion of the page is blank lined paper.