St. Cecilia Society membership card for J. P. Walker (1915) and tipped-in sheet beginning Mannie's bequest list to Amy
Book 2, Page 83 ·1915–1930
Transcription
Membership card (upper left):
A small printed ivory card on the album page, oriented sideways (head to the right). In copperplate engraving and handwritten ink:
St. Cecilia Society
1915
Mr. J. P. Walker A Member
Wm. H. Grimball Secretary & Treasurer
[The St. Cecilia Society is the historic private subscription society of Charleston, S.C., founded 1762. Wm. H. Grimball — William Heyward Grimball — served as the Society’s Secretary & Treasurer for many years; his signature appears on similar membership cards of this period.]
Tipped-in sheet (right):
A folded sheet of cream paper, hinged by its left edge to the album page and lying verso-up, so the writing on the recto shows through in mirror image. The recto continues onto pages 84 and 85 as Mannie’s bequest list. In pencil at the upper right corner of the slip:
List of things given me from the old home —
A few words of body text are visible reading along the bottom edge of the visible side (the tail of the list as it wraps around):
… the ordinary furniture left to be d[isposed of? divided?] … as you think best.
AI Notes
Album page with two items mounted on a ruled sheet. At upper left, a small printed ivory card from the St. Cecilia Society dated 1915, designating Mr. J. P. Walker a member of the Society and signed by Wm. H. Grimball, Secretary & Treasurer. The card is mounted sideways on the album page (head to the right). At right, a folded sheet of cream paper tipped in by its left edge, presented verso-up so that the writing on the recto shows through faintly in mirror image — the recto (continued onto the next album pages) is Mannie’s handwritten ‘List of things given me from the old home.’ A pencilled header in the upper right corner of the slip identifies the list; a few words of the body text are also visible reading along the bottom edge of the visible side. The lower half of the album sheet is blank. The card is a member identification card (not an admission ticket); addressee is Mr. J. P. Walker (not Mr. + Mrs.); signed by Wm. H. Grimball.
The visible-side text is the back end of the bequest list, which continues on the recto (pages 84–85). “Mannie” is Mary Anne Perry FitzSimons (the compiler’s mother, d. Jan 1934), distributing items from “the old home” — the FitzSimons family seat — to her daughter Amy.