Snapshot of Mount Hope from Mannie's garden, with caption recording Dad's move from Cain Island
Book 2, Page 82 ·1915–1925
Transcription
A black-and-white snapshot at the top: a path running between low garden beds toward a two-story white frame house with deep porches, glimpsed through trees. A square brick gate-post in the foreground supports a potted plant.
In blue ink beneath the photograph:
Dad moved from Cain Island back to Mt. Hope about this time. He sold Mt. Hope to Mrs. Harmon of N. Y. Dad and Mannie lived for awhile in the Parsonage, then they built a home by the old plantation house — where they lived until they died. This is picture of part of Mannie’s garden looking toward the Mt. Hope house.
AI Notes
Album page with a single black-and-white snapshot mounted at the top: a garden path running between low beds toward a two-story white frame house with deep porches, glimpsed through trees, with a square brick gate-post in the foreground hung with potted plants. The lower two-thirds of the page is ruled paper with five lines of memoir text in blue ink in the compiler’s hand. The caption records that Dad moved from Cain Island back to Mt. Hope about this time, sold Mt. Hope to a Mrs. Harmon of N.Y., and that Dad and Mannie lived a while in the Parsonage and then built a home by the old plantation house where they lived until they died — the picture shows part of Mannie’s garden looking toward the Mt. Hope house. Christopher FitzSimons and Jennie Perry FitzSimons are not named on the page. Mrs. Harmon of N.Y. is plausibly the widow of New York philanthropist William E. Harmon — see clipping on p122 — though the page doesn’t make the connection explicit.