Charles W. Chesnutt to Samuel S. Rosenthal, 3 February 1932
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February 3, 1932
Samuel S. Rosenthal,
11902 Superior Avenue,1
Cleveland, Ohio.
Dear Sir:
The last payment you made me for the sign space used by you on my building at 11902 Superior Avenue was $2.00, for January, 1931.
You have paid nothing since then, although I have occasionally dropped in at the store and have been promised that you would take the matter up shortly. There is now due, according to the terms of our arrangement twelve months' rent at $2.00, to February 1, 1932, $24.00.
Please send me a check promptly, and oblige.
Yours very truly, CWC:HBCorrespondent: Samuel S. Rosenthal (1885–1957) was a prominent Jewish businessman and philanthropist. Born in Austria, he came to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1914 via the Northeast and founded the Cleveland Overall Company, which specialized in making, repairing, and cleaning rented work clothes and later also military uniforms. He was involved in a number of other business ventures, including an automotive company, in Cleveland.
1. Samuel S. Rosenthal, Inc. was incorporated in 1930 as an automotive company. In 1931, Chesnutt agreed to have an advertisment for one of its dealerships, located at 11810 Superior Ave., painted on the façade of his immediately adjacent rental property at 11900–11902 Superior. This proximity is the likely reason that, in one of his three 1932 letters to Rosenthal about tardy payments, Chesnutt mistakenly uses the street number of his own building in Rosenthal's address. [back]
