Letter from Nancy McEwan Green to 'Momma' — thank-you for wedding (page 2)
Book 2, Page 260 ·1968–1975
Transcription
and always will be. I just can’t thank you enough.
I knew you’d be glad to know that I had finished. It certainly is a relief. When I think of all the worrying, I realize that procrastination doesn’t pay, but I would probably do the same thing all over again. One (or should I say a
AI Notes
Continuation of the thank-you letter begun on p259, written by Nancy Fletcher McEwan (writing as Nancy McEwan Green after her marriage to Ted Green) to her mother Mary Ann Walker McEwan. The page is a single passage of pen cursive on personal stationery; the showthrough of writing from the reverse side is visible behind the ink. The phrase ending mid-sentence at the foot (‘One (or should I say a …’) resolves on p259’s upper closing passage — the joke runs ‘One (or should I say a “forger”) never learns’, a self-deprecating quip about procrastination that caps the letter just before the ‘Much love, Nancy’ signature.