Charles W. Chesnutt to Mary and William Donahey, 8 January 1931 Charles W. Chesnutt Stephanie Browner Kenneth M. Price Transcription, encoding Swift, Bianca Anderson, Antje Weakly, Laura K. McMullen, Kevin Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln The New School 2025 The Charles W. Chesnutt Archive
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 Charles W. Chesnutt to Mary and William Donahey, 8 January 1931 January 8, 1931 Transcription derived from scan of original. Western Reserve Historical Society Charles Waddell Chesnutt Papers MS 3370 1 6 Correspondence Chesnutt, Susan Perry Chesnutt, Helen M. Coats, Eula Gaskill Miller Coats, Albert Frank Delahunte, Mary Ellen Slade, Dorothy Chesnutt Slade, John Chesnutt Slade, John Galamiel typed copy unsigned Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell) Donahey, William Donahey, Mary D. Chicago, Illinois McMullen, Kevin proofed Weakly, Laura K. review Antje Anderson annotated, made further corrections Bianca Swifttranscribed and encoded January 8, 1931
Mr. and Mrs. William Donahey, 2331 Cleveland Avenue, Chicago, Ill.
Dear People:

In spite of the hard times ‸& prevailing financial distress, which has pretty nearly wiped me out, taxes still come due with unfailing regularity. As usual, I have procured your individual tax bill on your Chester Cliffs property, which I enclose herewith.

The taxes on the company's property for the first half of 1930, which are now due, after deducting taxes on Miss Delahunte's cottage, amount to $29.27. Add to this the state franchise tax, $25.00, makes a total of $54.27, which, divided into eleven shares, the stock outstanding, gives $4.94 a share, which multiplied by five, the number of your shares, gives $24.70; for which please send me your check. The due date had been extended to January 20th.

I have not yet filed the certificate of dissolution of the corporation, which would reduce the taxes $25.00, but I have been waiting for Miss Delahunte to pay for the land which we allotted to her. She has promised to come in and attend to it, but hasn't as yet done so, and I will call her up in a day or two.

Family as well as usual. Helen seems to have gotten over all her physical difficulties and is in blooming health. She published in a recent number of the Classical Journal an article on a Latin play which she worked up at Central High School during the Virgil celebration, which is quite a distinction in scholastic circles. Mrs. Chesnutt is still more or less lame from her accident a couple of summers ago. Dorothy and little Johnnie are well. Dorothy's husband took his M.D. degree last summer, and passed the Ohio State medical examination last fall, so that he is now a full fledged M.D. At present he is an interneintern in a Detroit hospital, but will get out next fall fully equipped for the battle of life.

Our friend Counts is now doing time in the penitentiary. All his appeals, etc., having availed him nothing. I expect he got what he deserved, though I am sorry for his wife.

We all join in regards and best wishes for a happy and prosperous 1931. 1930 has been a very sad and distressful year for many people including

Yours sincerely,