Two addressed envelopes to Mrs. J. P. Walker — Robin Corbell's first letter (Portsmouth, 1948) and a Charleston envelope (1944)
Book 2, Page 198 ·1944–1948
Transcription
Upper envelope:
Postmarked PORTSMOUTH, VA., JAN 3, 4 PM, 1948, 3-cent purple Thomas Jefferson stamp. Addressed in pencil in large, childish capitals:
to M Mrs. J. P. WaL[KER] 3084 HEDRICK Jacksonville Florida
Note in the compiler’s pencilled hand running vertically along the left margin:
my 1st letter from Robin
Lower envelope:
Postmarked CHARLESTON, S.C., DEC 6, 4:30 PM, 1944, 3-cent purple Thomas Jefferson stamp. Addressed in dark ink in adult cursive:
Mrs. J. P. Walker 3657 Richmond St. Jacksonville Fla.
AI Notes
Album page with two stamped envelopes mounted one above the other on otherwise blank ruled paper. Each bears a 3-cent purple Thomas Jefferson stamp; both are addressed to Mrs. J. P. Walker (the compiler) in Jacksonville. The upper envelope is postmarked PORTSMOUTH, VA., JAN 3, 4 PM, 1948, and is addressed in childish block-letter pencil to 3084 HEDRICK; the compiler’s pencilled note along its left edge identifies it as ‘my 1st letter from Robin’ — i.e., Robin Corbell, the compiler’s grandson (son of Emma Dee ‘Dee/Dee’ Walker Corbell and R. L. Corbell Jr.). The lower envelope is postmarked CHARLESTON, S.C., DEC 6, 4:30 PM, 1944, in a clearer adult cursive hand. Robin’s canonical surname is Corbell.
Robin Corbell — the compiler’s eldest grandson, son of Emma Dee Walker Corbell and Dr. R. L. Corbell Jr. — would have been a young child in January 1948 when he sent his “1st letter” to his grandmother at 3084 Hedrick, Jacksonville, in printed-pencil capitals. The lower envelope, in an adult cursive hand from Charleston in December 1944, is from a different writer (FitzSimons family relations in Charleston, identity uncertain).