Three envelopes: letters and a telegram from Cousin Pickens to W. & S.
Book 2, Page 128 ·1920–1940
Transcription
Three pieces of envelope ephemera mounted on the page, each annotated by the compiler in blue ink to identify the now-missing contents.
Upper right envelope — a plain pale business-size envelope, flap closed. Annotated across the back in blue ink in three lines:
Letter from Cousin Pickens about Pickens Walker after Cousin had visited at W. & S.
Lower left envelope — a small brown envelope, torn along its upper edge. Annotated on the back panel in blue ink:
Letter Pickens W. & S.
[A printed return address is faintly visible upside-down across the top of the back panel — apparently “DR. GRAHAM HORTON” with a Charleston (or similar) address line. Suggesting the envelope was reused; the original sender’s printed name remains.]
Lower right envelope — a folded brown paper telegram wrapper or sleeve. Annotated lengthwise in blue ink:
Telegram from Pickens from W. & S.
AI Notes
Album page with three pieces of mail ephemera mounted across the sheet. An empty business-size envelope at the upper right is annotated across its back in blue ink. A second envelope at lower left, brown with age and torn at the upper edge, is annotated on its back panel in blue ink and shows the faint upside-down imprint of a printed return address (apparently ‘DR. GRAHAM HORTON’ or similar). At lower right, a folded brown paper telegram wrapper or envelope is annotated in blue ink down its length. The annotations identify each piece as a letter or telegram from ‘Cousin Pickens’ addressed to or about ‘W. & S.’ — most likely a household abbreviation for the Walker–FitzSimons household at Weldon & Savannah or similar. ‘Pickens’ here is identified by the compiler as a Cousin (probably a Pickens kinsman of J. P. Walker Sr.), not her son. All three pieces are empty; their contents are not pasted in.
All three envelopes are empty on the page; only the annotations survive. The top annotation distinguishes between “Cousin Pickens” (the sender/writer) and “Pickens Walker” (the subject of the letter), strongly suggesting “Cousin Pickens” is an older Pickens relative on J. P. Walker Sr.'s maternal side, writing about young Pickens (James Pickens Walker Jr., the compiler’s son). “W. & S.” is a household or location abbreviation not expanded elsewhere on the page.