Correspondence dated 15 September 1947

Summary

An item from the surviving correspondence of William John Sands.

Historical context

This item forms part of the surviving William John Sands correspondence and is dated 15 September 1947. It is preserved in the William John Sands Family Archive as evidence of Sands’s professional work and relationships. The accompanying transcript was produced by machine OCR and should be checked against the original scan before being treated as a definitive reading.

Catalogue description

Original correspondence scan imported from the Sands and Ferguson family archive. Source file: 19470915.pdf.

Machine transcript — unreviewed

r Kb % Stow 16 p,, igh: Dacian Wolo September 15 - 1947 TA, W.J. Sands Esq., Prtaso Oo "Myrtlefield" Up ' Hillsboro' Old Road, 17/48 Lisburn 7 Dear Willie, In view of what you know has been going on for the past twelve months, in an endeavour to treat you exceptionally well, I must say I was astonished to receive yours of September llth. & You refer to your long memory. Your memory is long for grievances which you complain of, but it does not at all seem to exist for the reali of the situation. When we started at Coventry, I told you that you could have a good holding in our Company = and a Directorship, if you would stay on the job, but you would not do so. The same thing happened in the U.S., where you again ran away and left the others, and me, to carry your responsibilities. I said to you at Coventry, that if you were to go to Austins, or Morris, or Standards, and ask them to make you a shareholder, pay you a good salary, and put you on theirBoard, whilst you went off to live hundreds of miles away, their answer would be very definitely "No". Your reply was "That's right enough". If it was right enough, then you have no grounds whatsoever for complaint. On many occasions in the past I have spoken to you, and written to you, that you should consult any business man you wished = and put all the facts before him of what you have received and been offered from me. If ever you did it, you did not tell me the result. I ask you again to do the same thing, including putting this letter before him and the proposals I have recently made to you. If he agrees you have a grievance, then let us meet and talk it over, and I will promise you that I will do my utmost to redress it. With very best wishes to you and your family. Yours ‘Wy;