Cursive letter, 'Tuesday' — continuation: Sam III details the buy-out terms and the $10,000 salary

Scanned page 372 of Book 1 — Scan of original. Open full size →

Second sheet of Sam’s letter to his mother, continuing in blue-ink cursive.

we left that we would do it after much discussion and thought. What it amounts to is this. I’ll work for him one year and after that if I’m satisfied with the work and he’s satisfied with me I’ll start ~~tag b~~ buying him out and this may take from 10 to 20 years. He made it very clear to us that it would all be business and there would be nothing for free. In fact he came out and told me that he couldn’t give it to us since Janice has a sister & who is as entitled to just as much of it as we are. This is the only way I would agree to working for him now. The salary isn’t as much as I’m making now, come July I’ll be making $10,000 a year, but I’m sure both of us will be a lot happier living in Panama City, knowing that we don’t stand any chance of being transferred. I told them out at the mill yesterday that I would be leaving in three weeks and they sure were real nice [continues on page 373]

AI Notes

Second sheet of the three-page letter from Samuel Gaillard FitzSimons III to his widowed mother Mary Haddow FitzSimons, begun on page 371 and signed on page 373. In this middle sheet Sam spells out the terms of the prospective deal with Janice’s father: he will work for him one year, and if both parties are satisfied he will start buying him out over 10 to 20 years; the arrangement is to be straight business — Janice’s father can’t give him the business because Janice has a sister equally entitled; the salary will be less than Sam currently makes (he is coming up on $10,000 a year at his present employer in July) but he and Janice will be happier in Panama City, free of the threat of transfer; he told “them out at the mill” yesterday that he would be leaving in three weeks. surname Hadlock → Haddow in people-list; writer canonicalized to Samuel Gaillard FitzSimons III; preserved the two manuscript struck-throughs (“I’ll start ~~tag b~~ buying him out” and “who is as entitled to just as much”) rather than silently smoothing them; “the mill” = the paper mill of Sam’s then-employer (cf. page 373, I.P. = International Paper) — Pine Bluff, Ark. plant per the p367 birth announcement.