Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1197

Exchange of letters between A.T. Kuehner, Standard Stoker Company, Inc., Grand Central Terminal, New York City, and Heath. Original from Mr. Kuehner addressed to Lawyers Hill Road, Elkridge, Maryland, and dated March 18, 1921; carbon copy of reply dated March 21, 1921

Dear Sir:

Kindly pardon this sort of introduction from a neighbor, one who detests unfriendly proceedings.

I learned that you were contemplating a drain from your property into a gulley on the west side of your land. It is my intention in the near future to use this gulley as a roadway to lead to my house, and you can readily appreciate what inconvenience this will be. I will be glad to hear from you as to your contemplated action, so that we may get together and decide for the best.

Very truly yours,

 (A. T. Kuehner)

 

 

Dear Sir:

 

I have your courteous letter of the 18th asking to hear from me in regard to my contemplation of a drain on the west side of my land. I beg to advise that I have not contemplated any change in the quantity or character of the water which naturally flows westward in very wet weather through a slight depression, following the slope of one or two acres of my land. I have, however, arranged a tile on my land near where the water flows off during heavy rain or the like so that the water which formerly ran through a depression on the surface will now follow the same course just below.

I think it very possible that you have inferred from appearances (or from report) that I contemplate the discharge of sewage or house drainage on adjoining land. I can assure you this is not the case. Anything of that kind would probably be far more objectionable to me than to you. I have in view an entirely different disposition of any such flow.

I wish to thank you for your courteous manner of bringing this matter to my attention and beg to assure you further of my desire to co-operate in matters that will be of benefit to both properties whenever an opportunity may arise. If in your future use of the gulley as a roadway you should find any inconvenience from the additional water that occasionally flows from a small portion of my land, I shall be very glad indeed to try to make some arrangements that will not be inconvenient to you.

I am very glad to know that you intend to improve the gulley as a roadway and will give any reasonable assistance that I can. I am fully sensible of the advantages to both parties whenever valuable improvements are made on either side of the line and I feel sure that we can each count upon the other for encouragement, approval and neighborly assistance in every matter of this kind.

I should like to take up with you some time in the future (if it interests you) the possibilities of an extension of the Lawyer Hill Road through to the

Washington Pike. It may be that by our donation of the necessary strips of land for this purpose we could get valuable aid from the State in the building of a road that would greatly enhance the value of our respective properties.

Yours very truly,

 

 

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