Letter, Kate Gleason to George Eastman
Photocopy of a letter from Kate Gleason to George Eastman. Kate informs Eastman that she cannot attend his Musical because she will be at a meeting in Montreal for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). She regrets not being able to meet him and shares her high esteem of him, noting the “ideals of courage and fairness you have given me.” She tells him she will soon be leaving Rochester to pursue her career as a house builder.
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Clonos
Brighton Station
Rochester, N.Y.
Box 124
May 23, 1923
Dear Mr Eastman,
I have made engagements for the Montreal
meeting of the ASME that take me away from Rochester
Sunday morning so I cannot accept the invitation to your
Musical. I am particularly sorry to miss seeing you
as I will probably never have another opportunity.
I hope to leave Rochester in July to go on
with my work of house building in places where I have con-
tracts and it is unlikly that I will be here again except
for a day, now and then.
I am very grateful to you for the business
ideals of courage and fairness that you have given me.
Your early discouragements and triumphs I have heard only
second hand through Mr Wheeler Davis and Mr Henry Strong.
But I well remember Henry Reichenbach and the re-organiza-
tion of your chemical department. And Darragh DeLancey
and the strikes. My heart ached for you in the
Stromberg-Carlson trial; you looked some days as though you
had been buried about two weeks and dug up again. And I
have always admired your action in giving the ordinary
stock-holders such a big share of the rewards of your bus-
iness as soon as there were any rewards.
I have myself come through a terribly tough
fight in ‘20 & ‘21. If my Father had not been here to
help me, I was a goner. I am glad now I had the troubles
otherwise I might have stuck around here and missed the gay
life of adventure and congenial work I have before me.
Yours Truly, Kate Gleason