Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2290

Typed letter from Heath at Oldfields, Huntington, Long Island, New York to daughter Lucile Heath MacCallum

December 8, 1943

 

 

 

Dearest Lucile:

 

Here I am at last inditing that long, long letter that I have been going to write to you and the boys for so long a time. I am writing it from the above address where I have been visiting again for the past several days. Tomorrow I go back to New York and to my new apartment at 14 Washington Place East, Apartment 3H. Please note this new address. I have taken this place until the end of next June. I hope before that time to get the book well under way towards publication and then take up something else less important even if as interesting — might even think of a trip down Mexico way if you are still there and think you could put up with me. Little Bee is coming to see me Friday so she can shop in New York and then go on down to Winchester for the rest of her Christmas holidays. She phoned me that her mother has at last joined the WACS and will go to some camp in Georgia early in January.

 

Well, you have been a mighty nice daughter to write to me so much about yourselves while I have been only thinking about how much I would like to write you and not getting down to doing it.

When I was down to Bee’s I told her that if she would make out the checks to me I would make a cash present to each of my three daughters, so I am sending the one she made out for you. You can use it for yourself and the boys or anyway you wish. What was that $20 you thank me for? Did I send back your Interest check for October? I still have your checks for the September and November interest $20.84 each.  The September one, drawn on the Union Bank of Winchester, came back, no funds. That bank bad gone out of bus­iness. The November one I have just held. Anyway, I am sending them both back to you with the suggestion that if you don’t pay any more interest this year or until I tell you to I will not have to treat it as income and be taxed heavily on it. The arrears of in­terest can be settled when the mortgage is paid off or it can be deducted from your share in my estate when the time comes, if the interest is then still in arrears. I am crediting you with interest paid up in full until and including August, 1943.

 

Dear Lucile, I’ve got to close this now — no personal matters yet discussed with you, but you will get the gift check and know that I am still thinking of you and loving you as I always have and hoping for some more of your nice newsy letters pretty soon.

 

Pops.