Letter from Nancy McEwan Green to 'Peck and Ann', September 3, 1968 (page 2 of 3)
Book 2, Page 269 ·1968
Transcription
The second leaf of the letter, continuing in blue ink.
end. He wore a dress that had belonged to Puck and Dear Pray used the dish that was used to christen Peck. That certainly made it mean so much more.
He is growing like a weed. He weighs about 8½ lbs. and is 20½ inches long. That is quite a sizable gain from the 5½ lbs. he weighed at birth and was only 19" long. He has just started smiling and laughing. It is such
AI Notes
Second page of Nancy McEwan Green’s letter of 3 September 1968 to her uncle and aunt ‘Peck and Ann’ (James Pickens Walker Jr. and Ann Knight Walker) describing the christening of her infant son Theodore McEwan Green. Theodore wore a christening dress that had belonged to ‘Puck’ — a family pet form for the recipient himself — and Nancy’s mother (‘Dear Pray’, i.e. Mary Ann Walker McEwan, the recipient’s sister) used the dish that had been used to christen ‘Peck’ as a baby. The continuity of family christening relics across three generations — from the recipient’s own infancy ca. 1912 (see pages 070–072) to the great-grandchild — is the substance of this page. Theodore’s vital statistics on this page: 8½ lbs and 20½ inches at the time of writing (early September 1968), up from 5½ lbs and 19 inches at birth on 13 July 1968.
‘Puck’ and ‘Peck’ on this page are two of several family pet forms for the recipient, James Pickens Walker Jr.; page 268 opens ‘Dear Peck and Ann’. ‘Dear Pray’ is the writer’s mother, Mary Ann Walker McEwan, sister of the recipient. The dish ‘used to christen Peck’ was the one used at the recipient’s own christening, ca. 1912.