Letter to 'My Dear Mom' — page 1, from Vivian S. to Amy FitzSimons Walker
Book 2, Page 139 ·1934
Transcription
[Stationery with a small printed monogram or crest at the top center of the sheet.]
My Dear Mom,
Oh — what an awful letter! I nearly fainted! Such crust! Would you answer it? Dolly said it wasn’t for him! I tried to send you a telegram saying “Am heart broken. My 5 days in Savan-[nah for] Christmas.” And — that damn fool Miss Davis said that I couldn’t. It would cause you too much worry so for me to send [a] happy one. I ask you, is that any of her affair? I’m so furious I could cry. You know I’d ask you [if I] are coming. I am so cheered. Call me more tomorrow? Ya’ll come up? Place is not so bad now [she’s] sick. Like a worn old [soul]! I hardly am so glad and! There was a bunch of girls in here when she said — Dan & Billy nearly passed out. Enough of my trouble! I really felt bad about it when you said how you held the pace. I understand. I just know how she felt. I will go far [if I’m] [never to think] of leaving all those grand friends I have made at home. I nearly go nuts. And I guess
AI Notes
First page of a chatty handwritten letter on personal stationery embossed with a small monogram or crest at the head of the sheet. Written in a flowing blue-ink cursive that is hard to read — words run together, dashes substitute for punctuation, and ink shows through from the verso. The writer (Vivian S., per the signature on page 140) is reacting in distress to a letter she has just received about her Christmas plans being upset by a ‘Miss Davis’ (confirmed by the signature paragraph on page 140, where the writer denounces ‘Miss Davis’s business’). Continues on page 140. A number of phrases in this letter remain conjectural because of the writer’s idiosyncratic cursive — bracketed readings flag the uncertainty rather than smoothing over it.
Continued on the next page.
A vertical pencil/ink note runs along the left margin of the sheet, very tightly written and partly illegible — the writer evidently turned the page and continued at the edge.