Child's Christmas thank-you note to 'Gam' (Amy FitzSimons Walker), page 1 of 2

First page (front) of a small child’s thank-you letter, written in pencil in large block-printed letters on a sheet of lined notebook paper. ‘Gam’ is the family nickname for Amy FitzSimons Walker (the grandmother). The note continues on p008 and is signed ‘Dee’ — a young grandchild rather than Amy’s adult daughter Emma Dee Walker Corbell. Block-printed hand in pencil, every word legible: ‘Dear Gam thank / you for the five / dollars. I hope you / have a merry’.

The note continues on p008 with ‘christmas. I want a / long list of things. / I wish you could be / here for christmas.’ and closes ‘My Love to both / of you. Love Dee’. ‘Gam’ is the family’s name for Amy FitzSimons Walker; ‘Dee’ here is a young grandchild — distinct from her adult elder daughter Emma Dee Walker Corbell (b. 1915), who would have been a grown woman by the date of this child’s pencil-printed note.