📄 Letter, Frank J Tone to Sumner LaRue Tone, May 14, 1935
A handwritten letter from Frank Jerome Tone (1868-1945) to Sumner Larue Tone (1864-1942) dated May (possibly March?) 14, 1935. This was separate from the 📄 Frank Jerome Tone family history letters, though dated at the same time, so it may belong with them.
Dear La Rue
Sorry to hear they still keep you in bed. I have low blood pressure myself but the doctors never get much concerned and I got $175000 life insurance in March.
Jennie Spofford told me about you Saturday when I went down. I have been helping her some and she seems to be getting along all right and expects some interest payment on the mortgage soon - has had little for a long time.
There is some old furniture in our old barn that Dayton Mansfield showed me. I would to have some of the old chairs for Jerry. He has taken a 100 year olf house & is furnishing it accordingly. It is in the country beyond Lewiston on the Niagara River.
I will be glad to buy some of the chairs from you, and I suppose Dayton should be paid for storing them.
I certainly hope you will be up soon & can't understand why it would not do you good to be getting about some. The doctors told me to exercise, eat nourishing foods & stop smoking.
I enclose a lot about John Tone the first & have sent copies to your Katharine so she may look it up if she desiers. I have not had a chance yet. He was some farmer. One farm- the homestead of 235 acres and me of 160 where his son John lived. As a farmer you are a mere piker.
[unreadable]
Frank
May 14 / 35
Notes:
- Jennie Spofford was Jerome Spafford (1842-1910)'s daughter, a first cousin of Frank and Sumner LaRue Tone. She lived in Bergen, NY.
- "Jerry" is almost certainly Frank Jr.