Letter to 'Dear little Amie' from Mother, May 1926 — conclusion (page 3 of 3), signed 'Mother', dated 'Friday'
Book 2, Page 106 ·1926
Transcription
is what its beauty springs into life when joy or righteousness is felt by him. I have tried to keep him from sweet potatoes but they are very bad this season. Mr. & Mrs. Hammon[d] came to stay for three days but are staying in their own house and that is so much easier for me.
Whit Boykin and his bride spent this much at the Club house,
- it is always some one. She is not young, ordinary, but I think will probably make him a good and useful wife.
I long to see you — Devotedly, Mother.
Friday.
AI Notes
Third and final leaf of a multi-page letter in brown ink on cream paper, signed ‘Mother’ and dated ‘Friday’. The hand is small, slanted, and difficult to decipher. The letter continues from pages 104–105 and was mailed in the envelope on page 107 (postmarked Yonges Island, S.C., May 27, 1926). Names appearing in the text: ‘Mr. & Mrs. Hammon[d]’ (likely the same Hammond family referenced on p092) and ‘Whit Boykin’ (‘Whit Boykin and his bride’). The writer is the recipient’s mother — given the May 1926 envelope addressed to Mrs. J. P. Walker, the writer is Amy’s mother Mary Anne Perry FitzSimons (Mam’mie / Minnie, d. Jan 1934), writing from Yonges Island. ‘Your boy’ on p105 = James Pickens Walker Jr.
‘Whit’ is likely a given name or family nickname for Whitemarsh; Boykin is a S.C. surname. The surname spelled ‘Hammon’ here is most likely the same ‘Hammons’ family referenced two pages earlier (p093) and as ‘Hammonds’ on p092 — the writer drops the final ‘d’/‘s’ in cursive elsewhere as well.