Letter from Nancy McEwan Green to 'Momma' — thank-you for wedding (page 1)

A folded sheet of personal stationery photographed showing both halves of the bifolium. The upper half is the closing of the letter ending ‘Much love, Nancy’; the lower half is the opening of the same letter, beginning ‘Dear Momma’. A blind-embossed stationery monogram reading ‘NMcG’ (Nancy McEwan Green) is visible at center between the two passages — the writer’s own monogram, confirming attribution. The letter continues onto p260. The writer is Nancy Fletcher McEwan (b. 13 Sep 1946, Hunter’s mother), writing as Nancy McEwan Green after her marriage to Ted Green — see p423 (Feb 26 1986 letter signed ‘Nancy McEwan Green’) and p421/p424 for the canonical attribution. ‘Momma’ is her mother Mary Ann Walker McEwan (1918–1975), Amy FitzSimons Walker’s daughter. The ‘beautiful wedding’ refers to Nancy’s own — placing the letter in the late 1960s or early 1970s, before Mary Ann’s death in 1975. The closing word in quotes on the upper portion reads ‘forger’ (or similar); read in context with p260, the joke runs ‘One (or should I say a “forger”) never learns’ — self-deprecating humor about procrastination.

Between the closing and opening, the sheet bears a blind-embossed monogram NMcG — Nancy McEwan Green’s own stationery cipher. The letter continues onto p260. Writer is Nancy Fletcher McEwan; the addressee ‘Momma’ is Mary Ann Walker McEwan. Read in context with p260, the closing quoted word ‘forger’ caps a joke about procrastination (‘One (or should I say a “forger”) never learns’).