Charles W. Chesnutt to The Weber-Lind Company, 17 November 1922
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November 17, 1922.
The Weber-Lind Company,
City.
Dear Sirs:
With reference to the work done by your company in repainting and redecorating the interior of my house at 9719 Lamont Avenue,1 I would like to say that the work was beautifully done and is entirely satisfactory, and that, by comparison with bills of some of your competitors which have come under my observation since I paid yours, the charge was very reasonable.2
Sincerely yours, CWC/FLCorrespondent: The Weber-Lind Company (Weber, Lind & Hall until 1918) was a Cleveland-based interior decoration company co-founded in 1871 by Louis N. Weber (1854–1956).
1. After relocating to Cleveland in 1884, Chesnutt's family lived in a series of rental houses (on Wilcutt Avenue, Ashland Avenue, and Florence Street), and then built a home to Chesnutt's plans at 64 Brenton Street, where they lived from May 1889 until May 1904. At that time, he purchased the house at 9719 Lamont Avenue, which continued to be owned by the Chesnutt family after his death in 1932 (see Helen Chesnutt, Charles Waddell Chesnutt: Pioneer of the Color Line [Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1952], 37–39, 48 and 184–185). [back]
2. While the Weber-Lind Company's bill has not been located, their estimate for the work to be done at the Chesnutt's home, dated September 23, 1922, was $341.35. [back]
