[Letter from D. W. Kempner to Mary Jean, July 6, 1956] Page: 1 of 2
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H. KEMPNER
IAIR MAIL
Mrs. Kempner Thorne
The Lodge
Hamilton Farms
Gladstone, New Jersey
Dear Mary Jean:
I have your two letters and I am glad to hear that everything is
moving smoothly with you and Danny and that he is now taking swimming
lessons in addition to his riding lessons.
I presume it is alright to use your old passport, but be sure you
have a still valid vaccination certificate. 'We will be glad to have Danny
with us at any time in Paris which will permit you to have a little vacation.
I am sending you a clipping from the Houston Post. W e have never
made the price at which we sold the $125.00 per share public and the
guess of $90. 00 per share is of course wrong. It was only proper that
you as well as everybody else who owed anything to the firm should pay
up in full which you and I and everyone else has done. The Press stock
is alright and while it will vary in dividends, it will eventually pay and
pay well, but right now with the heavy expense to improve the property,
we can expect no dividend for the time being.
I do not understand two or three points in your statement made re-
garding your income, to wit: $6, 000 added to your income for Oakleigh
Thorne insurance and later on, down the column, you take off $6, 000 in-
surance and in another place you state that the $36, 000 that you will need
for spending does not include legal fees. I thought you told me that the
legal fee for the divorce and everything connected with it were to be taken
care of by Oakleigh. There is no need for you to worry unnecessarily about
the matter. I can still take care of it, particularly now that the sugar stock
was sold. We all have to economize a little, but that won't hurt too much.
It is of course difficult to run three establishments economically; your house
in the City, in the Country and our place here, but your trip to Europe is
needed by you. It will be one of our great pleasures and there must be no
thought of cutting it out.
I know of nothing else that will be of great interest to you except lots
of love to you both
From
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Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956. [Letter from D. W. Kempner to Mary Jean, July 6, 1956], letter, July 6, 1956; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1030996/m1/1/: accessed March 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rosenberg Library.