Newspaper clipping announcing marriage of Emma Dee Walker to Robert Lawrence Corbell Jr., with addressed envelope

Scanned page 162 of Book 2 — Scan of original. Open full size →

Newspaper clipping (upper left):

Marriage of Miss Walker To Mr. Corbell Announced

Mr. and Mrs. J. Pickens Walker announce the marriage of their daughter, Emma Dee, to Robert Lawrence Corbell Jr., of Portsmouth, Va., son of Dr. and Mrs. Robert Lawrence Corbell of Portsmouth, on October 9, 1937 in Amelia, Va. The couple will reside in Richmond, Va.

Mrs. Corbell, formerly of Savannah, Ga., attended Hollins College, Hollins, Va. Mr. Corbell was graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Envelope (lower):

A pale tan, slightly creased envelope, postmarked at Richmond, Va. (circular cancellation reading RICHMOND / AUG 9 / 11 AM / 1940 / VA.) and bearing a 3-cent purple Jefferson Presidential-series stamp at the upper right.

Addressed in a sloping cursive hand:

Mrs. J. Pickens Walker c/o Mrs. Anna W. Modisette Philippi, West Virginia.

AI Notes

Album page with two items: a small rectangular newspaper clipping pasted at the upper left, and a pale tan stamped envelope mounted below it. The clipping is headed ‘Marriage of Miss Walker To Mr. Corbell Announced’ and reports the October 9, 1937 marriage at Amelia, Va., of Emma Dee Walker (the compiler’s daughter) to Robert Lawrence Corbell Jr. of Portsmouth, Virginia. The envelope is addressed in fountain-pen ink to Mrs. J. Pickens Walker, c/o Mrs. Anna W. Modisette, Philippi, West Virginia, with a Richmond, Va. postmark dated AUG 9 / 11 AM / 1940 and a 3-cent purple Jefferson Presidential-series (‘Prexie’) stamp.

The sender is the compiler’s daughter “Dee” - Emma Dee Walker Corbell - writing from Richmond to her mother Amy, who was summering at Philippi, W.Va. with Anna Walker Modisette. Anna was J. P. Walker Sr.'s elder sister (Anna Strait Walker, b. May 1878 Clarksburg WV, m. Albert Modisette) - i.e., the compiler’s sister-in-law, not an unrelated acquaintance. The letter inside is preserved across the following pages (163 - 168).