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In blue ink on cream paper:

Wednesday.

April 5th 1933.

Dear Amy:

I imagine you are back at home again after your sad visit to West Virginia. I am very glad you were with Puck. He has always been so faithful to us in our troubles.

Since my Indian sickness in Savannah I have thought a great

AI Notes

First sheet of a three-page letter in blue ink on cream stationery, dated ‘Wednesday. April 5th 1933.’ Signed ‘Mother’ on the third sheet (page 096). This is the letter that arrived in the Yonges Island envelope on page 089, addressed to Mrs. J. P. Walker in Savannah; the body refers to the writer’s recent illness (‘my Indian sickness’) in Savannah and encloses a signed blank check (the Carolina Savings Bank check pasted on page 090). Salutation reads ‘Dear Amy’. ‘Puck’ is James Pickens Walker Sr., Amy’s husband. The ‘sad visit to West Virginia’ is unidentified but indicates a death or grave illness in the family there.