Anniversary letter from James Pickens Walker to his wife Amy, Monticello, Fla., 16 Oct 1911 (page 2 of 2)
Book 3, Page 5 ·1911
Transcription
…for the change you have made in our manner of life. — I don’t think I was unselfish because I would work, but I enjoyed bettering the high places mightily well. Not only have you made me better morally, but financia[lly] [our?] working has [also] [pointed] [up?] —
Where would I pass our amusing & humorous details. I now develop them thoroughly.
I hope that in a few years I will be treated similarly by + you will not have to lead such a rocky life. I hate this as badly as you do.
The soaking I got yesterday did not effect me any as I feel fit today.
Dear I hope you are well & that Mamie is improving. — How did Dad come out with the Yankee —
I am going out on the Seaboard a short distance & will have to ring off now —
Give my love to all —
Darling, I love you terribly.
Aff. & devotedly
J. P. W.
AI Notes
Second leaf of the two-page anniversary letter begun on p004. The dropped capital ‘A’ of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad letterhead appears again at the top. The letter closes with the writer’s reference to going out ‘on the Seaboard’ (i.e. the Seaboard Air Line railway, a competing rail line) and the initialled signature ‘J.P.W.’ The close mentions ‘Mamie’ (an in-law or sister Walker hopes is recovering — relation unclear), asks how ‘Dad’ fared ‘with the Yankee’ (an unnamed northerner — perhaps a business deal or buyer), and notes that the soaking Walker had got in the rain the day before had not affected him.
Walker asks after a “Mamie” — relation undetermined; likely a sister, sister-in-law, or aunt who was ill. The “Yankee” is a person/buyer Walker’s father (“Dad”) was negotiating with. The companion envelope (postmarked Monticello, Fla., 16 Oct 1911, addressed to Adams Run, S.C.) is on p003 of book-003.