"It is pleasant," she writes, "to feel that our friendship still exists, as hearty and as generous as ever; and that it will abide to the end I doubt not, for, by naming his little son Abbott in honor of me, my dear, good, kind jimmy Morrissey has simply welded more closely the bonds of friendship uniting us."
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson
When I told him he was he didn't say nothin' at first-just looked down on the floor and then he said slow-like:- 'If Polk had had any common sense, Uncle jimmy,'-he always calls me 'Uncle jimmy,'-'he'd saved himself a heap o' worry and me a good deal o' sufferin'.
"The Other Fellow"
F. Hopkinson Smith
He come in and asked for me, and I went out, and he said, 'Uncle jimmy, they mean I sha'n't work 'round here.
"The Other Fellow"
F. Hopkinson Smith