Letter, Kate Gleason to Wilfred Leland
A letter from Kate Gleason to Wilfred Leland, whose father, Henry M. Leland, started the Lincoln Motor Company. Kate explains that it is impossible for her to provide a $100,000 loan to his father, but that she might be able to set up a fund for him.
Dear Mr Leland,
Your letter about the $100,000.00 loan has
reached me here and I am sorry that such an amount would be
impossible for me even if I had thought of helping with
a business enterprise.
But beside that my idea of helping your father was
more personal. It is something in the way of a fund
that would yield him an adequate income and as I could
not contribute more than $25,000.00, I hoped to interest
my brother and a few others who are also under oblig-
ation to your father. But I have not yet asked my xxxxx
brother what he could do as I have no definite plan.
And he has not even said that he wanted to join me when
I told him of my wish to do something.
If your father is able to accept my invitation to
Beaufort, perhaps we can work out some plan. And if he
cannot come, I will go to Detroit in May.
Yours Truly,