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Nile Kinnick correspondence, March-October 1943

1943-04-08: Page 01

Thursday night, April 8, 1943
Dear SB:
Your letter of April 1 requested that your savings account book be sent to Frank
Williams, and I mailed it the same evening your letter was received. To-day I
have it returned with a note from Mr. Williams saying simply that he had purchased
your stock in accordance with instructions. One deduction was for $422.41 and
probably represents the IHC stock.  The other deduction was for $2o1.36 and no
doubt is for the PP stock. The book also shows interest credits for $21.45 for the
last three six-months periods. The remaining balance is $534.4o.
In a recent letter I gave you the balance in your Omaha savings account at $1,183.01.
At that time I reported the withdrawal of $86.78 for listed items, leaving the balance
noted here. This week I shall draw about $50 to pay the regular $22 on your uniforms
and between $27 & $28 to pay for the books ordered for you some time ago, including
the four volumes of Sandburg's "War Years", and the Churchill volumes that you asked
for. The books mentioned in your letter of March 27th (Van Loon's Lives-This Is My 
Best-on Jefferson etc) have not been ordered, but I shall attend to it presently.
You will be a busy man catching up on your reading after this is over, but we have
only approbation for your judgment in building your library now.
About making an investment of part of your Omaha funds, I shall attend to that soon,
in the manner we have mentioned in our recent letters. This has been a particularly
busy week and I haven't had much time for private enterprises. I have had charge of
a training school at the bank in which we have had about a dozen NFLA secretaries
and field men in here for conferences and instruction. That will close tomorrow and
should permit me to resume attention to some of the little chores that need doing.
You spoke in a recent letter of your wish that we might collaborate in some business
some time. That proposal struck a concordant note in me, and I feel genuinely complimented that you should make it. Nothing would please me more than to join you
in an endeavor that should yield profit and pleasure to us both, providing the enterprise
would be such that I could make some real contribution to its success. That would
almost confine it to something agricultural. So you may count on me for that,
'when this is over'.  It would please me no end to serve as the production manager
of an agrarian establishment while you might periodically be away fighting the
political, legislative and governmental wars; then coming home to the quiet industry
of field and feedlot; exchanging the hurly-burly of human strife and congestion for
the feel of new furrows, the fragrance of hay and ripening grain and the hungry grunts
of kine and shoat, Tho the usual gauge of one's station in this civilized world is
one's ability to speak a smart line, and a demonstrable savvy of when to bow and when
to look aside. Well, I think it is ft distinct relief to sometimes commune with the
whispering corn and the waving grass.  In other words, I shall never feel at loss
as long as there is the land to lean on.  I think you have some of the same urge.
April 3d is my birthday, and thanks for remembering. Ben sent up a volume on Texas
history that looks interesting and which I shall read at the very first opportunity.
A small note from Elsie brought her usual and neverfailing recognition. The first
message came from Theodora, and it stimulated me to break out in a raw rash of verse.
Mother laughed uproariously and included your efforts with mine as the object of her
merriment.  I have no excuse to offer, but you know that it is Spring and Theo
could, without too much imagination you know, stir the muses. Don't you agree?
Anyway, you might like to see the lines; as one poet to another. So here they
are.

Saving...

Thursday night, April 8, 1943 Dear SB: Your letter of April 1 requested that your savings account book be sent to Frank Williams, and I mailed it the same evening your letter was received. To-day I have it returned with a note from Mr. Williams saying simply that he had purchased your stock in accordance with instructions. One deduction was for $422.41 and probably represents the IHC stock. The other deduction was for $2o1.36 and no doubt is for the PP stock. The book also shows interest credits for $21.45 for the last three six-months periods. The remaining balance is $534.4o. In a recent letter I gave you the balance in your Omaha savings account at $1,183.01. At that time I reported the withdrawal of $86.78 for listed items, leaving the balance noted here. This week I shall draw about $50 to pay the regular $22 on your uniforms and between $27 & $28 to pay for the books ordered for you some time ago, including the four volumes of Sandburg's "War Years", and the Churchill volumes that you asked for. The books mentioned in your letter of March 27th (Van Loon's Lives-This Is My Best-on Jefferson etc) have not been ordered, but I shall attend to it presently. You will be a busy man catching up on your reading after this is over, but we have only approbation for your judgment in building your library now. About making an investment of part of your Omaha funds, I shall attend to that soon, in the manner we have mentioned in our recent letters. This has been a particularly busy week and I haven't had much time for private enterprises. I have had charge of a training school at the bank in which we have had about a dozen NFLA secretaries and field men in here for conferences and instruction. That will close tomorrow and should permit me to resume attention to some of the little chores that need doing. You spoke in a recent letter of your wish that we might collaborate in some business some time. That proposal struck a concordant note in me, and I feel genuinely complimented that you should make it. Nothing would please me more than to join you in an endeavor that should yield profit and pleasure to us both, providing the enterprise would be such that I could make some real contribution to its success. That would almost confine it to something agricultural. So you may count on me for that, 'when this is over'. It would please me no end to serve as the production manager of an agrarian establishment while you might periodically be away fighting the political, legislative and governmental wars; then coming home to the quiet industry of field and feedlot; exchanging the hurly-burly of human strife and congestion for the feel of new furrows, the fragrance of hay and ripening grain and the hungry grunts of kine and shoat, Tho the usual gauge of one's station in this civilized world is one's ability to speak a smart line, and a demonstrable savvy of when to bow and when to look aside. Well, I think it is ft distinct relief to sometimes commune with the whispering corn and the waving grass. In other words, I shall never feel at loss as long as there is the land to lean on. I think you have some of the same urge. April 3d is my birthday, and thanks for remembering. Ben sent up a volume on Texas history that looks interesting and which I shall read at the very first opportunity. A small note from Elsie brought her usual and neverfailing recognition. The first message came from Theodora, and it stimulated me to break out in a raw rash of verse. Mother laughed uproariously and included your efforts with mine as the object of her merriment. I have no excuse to offer, but you know that it is Spring and Theo could, without too much imagination you know, stir the muses. Don't you agree? Anyway, you might like to see the lines; as one poet to another. So here they are.