Scanned page 10 of Book 3
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Transcription

[High-resolution close-up of the right column of the second sheet of the letter (cf. the whole-sheet scan on p008). Pencil, large childish block printing; only the top two ruled lines are inked, the rest of the page is blank.]

My Love to both

of you. Love Dee

AI Notes

High-resolution close-up scan of the RIGHT column of the same single sheet shown whole on p008 (the left column is captured separately on p009). Pencil block printing in a child’s hand on ruled notebook paper; the right column occupies only the top two ruled lines of the sheet, with the rest of the page blank apart from faint pencil show-through from the verso. The signature ‘Dee’ is written with a small flourish on the D, suggesting the writer is a Walker grandchild (NOT Emma Dee Walker Corbell, the adult middle daughter, who by the date of this letter was already a grown woman with her own children).

The note begins on p007 (‘Dear Gam thank you for the five dollars…’) and continues across p008 (whole-sheet view) and p009 (left-column close-up of this same sheet). The faint pencil show-through in the lower half of the page is the bleed of the earlier text from the verso.