Verso of the typed Hedley Bible extracts, with handwritten attribution
Book 2, Page 35 ·1924–1944
Transcription
A largely blank cream sheet. Two lines in blue ink at the upper left, in the compiler’s hand:
Original copy of this letter is in Perry Family Bible.
Written by Minnie P. FitzSimons
AI Notes
The blank verso of the second typewritten Hedley Bible-extract sheet (i.e., this is the back of page 34), now bearing a single handwritten note in blue ink at the upper left in the compiler’s hand. The typed text from page 34 shows through the paper in reverse — partially legible as mirror-script of the births-of-enslaved-servants entries and the closing parenthetical paragraph signed ‘(Amy P. Walker)’. The remainder of the sheet is blank cream paper with fold creases and minor foxing. [the handwritten attribution at top-left is verified word-for-word in the compiler’s blue-ink hand. The ‘letter’ framing is curious — pp. 33–34 are typewritten Bible-extract memoranda rather than a true letter, but the annotation suggests Amy regarded the typescript as her mother Minnie Perry FitzSimons’s transmission of family record (the original Bible entries being copied verbatim by Minnie in 1924). The same Bible material is recorded in different form in Minnie’s handwritten Hedley-Perry memorandum at book-002/pp031–032 and again at book-001/p635.]
The typed text from page 34 shows faintly through the paper, mirror-reversed. The rest of the sheet is blank.
The wording “letter” rather than “extracts” or “memorandum” suggests Amy regarded the typed pages 33–34 — Bible entries plus her own parenthetical paragraph — as in effect a letter from her mother Minnie Perry FitzSimons. Cross-reference: the typescript is signed “Minnie P. FitzSimmons — 1924” on page 33, and the closing parenthetical Mauger / Fuller paragraph on page 34 is signed “(Amy P. Walker)” — i.e., the compiler added her own explanation to her mother’s earlier 1924 typescript.