Snapshot of Clara Brinson Williams ('Brissy'), with envelope from Edna (B. Snowden)
Book 2, Page 175 ·1938–1944
Transcription
Snapshot (upper left) — A small hand-tinted photograph of a woman and a small boy standing on a flight of plain wooden exterior steps. The woman wears a dark winter coat and holds what appears to be a wrapped parcel; the boy, standing in front of her, wears a pale knitted cap and matching coat.
Annotation, upper right column, in graphite pencil:
Clara Brinson Williams — “Brissy” — She was our maid in Jax. from 19[__] to 1941. A good friend, as well as an [excellent] maid. She married in 1941 and moved to New York. I always hear from her at Xmas time. A. P.
Envelope (lower left) — A small white envelope franked with a 3-cent purple Jefferson stamp and a circular postmark reading Fort George, Fla. / Sep 14 / 1944. The return address, hand-written in the upper-left corner in pencil:
B. Snowden Fort George, Flo.
The face is addressed in pencil, with two prior street addresses struck through and the envelope finally redirected:
Mrs. J. Pickens Walker
115 S. Main St.(struck through)3657 Richmond St.(struck through) Phillips P.O. Jacksonville, Florida
Annotation, lower right column, in graphite pencil:
Letter from Edna who was with us for a long time in Sav. Ga. She writes to me every now & then. This letter was in ans. to one asking her if she would come to help with the grand children.
AI Notes
Album page with three items mounted across the sheet, surrounded by handwritten annotations in graphite pencil on the lined notebook page. At the upper left is a small hand-tinted snapshot of a woman and a small boy standing on a flight of wooden steps. At the upper right is a column of handwriting identifying the woman in the photograph. At the lower left is a stamped and postmarked envelope (Fort George, Fla., Sep 14 1944) addressed to Mrs. J. Pickens Walker, with two earlier addresses struck through and the envelope re-routed. At the lower right is a second column of handwriting describing the enclosed letter (the letter itself is transcribed on page 176). The envelope return-address surname reads ‘Snowden’. The pencil annotations are signed ‘A. P.’ (Amy Perry — the compiler’s monogram, using her maiden middle name).
The envelope return address “B. Snowden” appears to be the same correspondent the compiler identifies on this page as “Edna” — i.e., Edna had married a Snowden by 1944. The letter itself, postmarked Fort George, Fla., is transcribed on the facing page (176). “Sav. Ga.” is Savannah, Georgia; the family lived there before relocating to Jacksonville. The “grand children” — Mary Ann Walker McEwan’s and Emma Dee (Walker) Corbell’s children — appear on the surrounding pages. The pencil signature A. P. is the compiler, Amy Perry FitzSimons Walker.