Scanned page 95 of Book 2
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Continuing in blue ink, marked ‘2’ at the top of the sheet:

deal of Theodore and of the condition he would be in if I should suddenly die, or again become helpless as I was there, and unable to sign a check. I am enclosing a signed blank check and should the worst come to pass, please draw out the amount I have in this bank, deposit it in yours

AI Notes

Second sheet of the April 5, 1933 letter (pages 094–096), numbered ‘2’ in the upper left corner. The writer (‘Mother’ = Mary Anne Perry FitzSimons, the elder ‘Minnie’) explains the enclosed signed blank check (the Carolina Savings Bank check on page 090): if she dies or again becomes incapacitated, her daughter Amy is to use the check to draw out the bank balance and pay Theodore — her son Theodore Barker FitzSimons (1890–1943), Amy’s brother, the AEF veteran — eighty dollars a month (as named on page 096). The April 1933 cluster (pp 089/090/094/095/096) constitutes the writer’s near-last surviving correspondence; she died in January 1934.