Letter from Margaret Baumeister to Minnie, April 20, 1953 — sheet 3
Book 2, Page 221 ·1953
Transcription
[Printed letterhead, centred:]
MRS. THEODORE BAUMEISTER 4711 ISELIN AVENUE NEW YORK 71
us though, that it is very likely that the lungs will become affected in about nine months. But perhaps they wont."
She is planning to get a pony for him. It has been his dearest wish, and will do more than anything else to console him for the loss of the leg.
“Are you situated to take care of a pony?” I asked.
“No,” she answered, “But we’re going to have a pony if he has to stay in my bedroom.”
This afternoon Dee left the hotel, which was expensive, and moved in with Ellen Fitz Simons, in Greenwich Village.
AI Notes
Third sheet of the four-sheet letter of Apr. 20, 1953 from Margaret Baumeister to ‘Minnie’ (cf. pp. 219, 220, 222). Same printed letterhead as sheet 1 (‘MRS. THEODORE BAUMEISTER / 4711 ISELIN AVENUE / NEW YORK 71’). Continues the conversation between Margaret and Dee, including the memorable promise of a pony for Puck after the amputation. Notes that Dee has moved in with her cousin Ellen Milliken FitzSimons (Charleston Library Society Librarian, 1898-1948 — here in retirement, evidently keeping an address in Greenwich Village).