Letter from Mother (Mary Anne Perry FitzSimons) to her daughter 'Dear little Aimie' — page 1 of 3, May 1926
Book 2, Page 104 ·1926
Transcription
In brown fountain-pen ink on cream stationery:
Dear little Aimie:
Your boy has been such a pleasure to us all, and I hate to see him go. I hope he will always feel like coming to us. The little children all like him. Minnie has been going to Fair View for two days getting the house cleaned and ready to move into on Saturday. I pray it may be alright; I know
AI Notes
Opening sheet of the May 1926 ‘Dear little Aimie’ letter that continues on p105 and concludes on p106 (signed ‘Mother’, dated ‘Friday’); the mailing envelope is on p107, postmarked Yonges Island, S.C., May 27, 1926, addressed to Mrs. J. P. Walker in Jacksonville. Written in brown fountain-pen ink on a single side of cream stationery. The writer is Mary Anne Perry FitzSimons (the elder ‘Minnie’, d. Jan 1934) — Amy’s mother — writing from Yonges Island where the family kept Fair View plantation; this attribution follows from the p106/p107 cluster. ‘Your boy’ = James Pickens Walker Jr. (the recipient’s son). The ‘Minnie’ named in third person is the YOUNGER Minnie — Mary Annie FitzSimons Allston, Amy’s sister, who is preparing the Fair View house for a move on Saturday.
The letter continues onto p105 and concludes on p106 with the signature ‘Mother’ and the dateline ‘Friday’. ‘Minnie’ here is the younger Mary Annie FitzSimons Allston (Amy’s sister), distinct from the writer ‘Mother’ (the elder Mary Anne Perry FitzSimons, also known as Minnie).