Emilie Skarabotta to Charles W. Chesnutt, 5 August 1931 Charles W. Chesnutt Stephanie P. Browner Kenneth M. Price Transcription, encoding, and annotation Ballard, Chaun 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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 Emilie Skarabotta to Charles W. Chesnutt, 5 August 1931 August 5, 1931 Transcription derived from scan of original. Western Reserve Historical Society Charles Waddell Chesnutt Papers MS 3370 1 6 Correspondence Chesnutt, Helen Kormos, Margaret typed copy unsigned Skarabotta, Emilie Chesnutt, Charles W. (Waddell) Kevin McMullen proofed Laura K. Weakly review Antje Anderson annotated, made further corrections Chaun Ballard transcribed, encoded August 5, 1931 Dear Mr. Chesnutt:

I should have written this letter day before yesterday but just did n't get around to it. Miss Chesnutt came in with $72.50 rent which she collected over the weekend, and which I put in your commercial account. She is taking perfect care of the rent, and was even going out to collect for the sign privilege on your store!

As I am writing this I am competing with Miss Kormos while she is putting together six copies of a nine-copy patent deposition. Does n't that sound good? We have n't had a job like that for a long time, except the Youngstown Sheet & Tube deps. We did n't get many pages yesterday, but expect to get quite a bit before the week is over.

Some of the exhibits offered yesterday were endorsed by you eighteen years ago -- you took so much room we have n't much left to put our decorations on. They offered the deposition of one of the witnesses taken then.

Miss Kormos is back from her vacation, and said she will write to you later. If you don't hear from us for a while, as usual you'll know no news is good news, and we' ll write as soon as it is over.

Regards from us all.

Sincerely yours,