Correspondence dated 25 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 25 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: 19472509.jpg.

Machine transcript — unreviewed

“"Myrtlefiern" Phe Hillsboro’ O14 Road, Stree LISSURE. avuhe fe af i “Pile fa 25th September, 1947, Bear Kr. Ferguson, Until you homour the pledges mate to me several times during the last twenty years, I feel it impossible fer me te carry on, so wtil something ie done I have decided to cancel ay risit mext week, Your mention of my running avay is your only excuse because you knew darned well I never promised to stay on the job but only said I would stay a few months to get the designs completed. I fail to see where you and others had te make any chanee in 4esign after I left America, of course telk is cheap, With recard to e0ing to Excland to stay I told you repeatedly I was not going te live there se,your mention of Austin, Morris or Standard does not apply to me, anyway I have no Gesire to run away from my native country, A number of years ago I consulted two very _b business mer. in Belfast whom are very well known to you but I did not take their advice as I thou ht I «ould trust you, I had not the heart te tell you at that time what they said, it would be useless foing to anyone again for adiice az I have mo intention of running away from home, It did not take you as long to grant shares in the Company to Euer and George Sherman, Roger Kyes, Charles Vincent and others, any shares ever I :Rheld in any of the Companies only amounted to some nice bits of paper, I wish. to thank you tery much for your past favours, but let me tell you I made more money in the two years 1925-1977 wien I wea in business on my own then I nate ?rom that date up to 194? om your behalf, I live? 11 that time on promises, eny extra Sonus I -.ot wes not exactly because I was a ch»rity, yo. know you rot eood .nlne for it, a lot better velue thn you .ot from Genrge Sherman. I hate thin *- atin. np Susinear but I hergea ngrinst me, eae! I =e se wittse a your ¢ Lepjens 1: must anerver :nythine % Tor the best, Yours sincerely, ee” ha Meal