Letter from Mother (Mary Anne Perry FitzSimons) to her daughter Amy, Wednesday, July 14th — page 1 of 3
Book 2, Page 91 ·1900–1925
Transcription
In black ink on cream paper:
Wednesday.
July 14th.
Dear little Daughter,
I have been so troubled over your long silence knowing you have been working beyond your strength, and that you are worn out mentally and physically. I am just sending a line on this, my dear sister’s seventieth [?] birthday to tell you how often I think of you and with gratitude to God
AI Notes
First sheet of a three-page letter written in black ink on cream stationery, dated only ‘Wednesday. July 14th’ with no year. Signed ‘Mother’ on the third sheet (page 093). The hand, signature, and references to ‘Brother’, ‘papa’, and Bingaman (a FitzSimons family property — see p092) identify the writer as Mary Anne Perry FitzSimons (the elder ‘Minnie’, d. Jan 1934) writing to her daughter Amy. The writer notes she is composing the line on her sister’s birthday; the long word before ‘birthday’ reads most plausibly as ‘seventieth’, placing the letter on a date when one of her sisters turned 70 (possible match: half-sister Mary Susan Perry named in the family memorandum on p031).
‘seventieth’ is the most likely reading of the long word before ‘birthday’ but the letter is faint at that point; ‘Susan’s’ (a sister’s given name) is an alternative reading.