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Parker N. Berry
1888-1918
Prospective Team Member
Correspondence, 1911
Parker Berry to Purcell, Feick, & Elmslie
(February 3, 1911) February 3, 1911 Messrs. Purcell, Feick, and Elmslie Gentlemen:- I am writing you in
consequence of a talk I had with Mr. Purcell when he was in Chicago last month.
At that time, he told me that you contemplated taking on another draftsman about
the first of March and said that you would be pleased to consider me as a
candidate for the position if, before that time, I should decide that I would
like to make a change. The pleasant associations,
and the opportunities for growth in the profession which such a position would
bring with it, mean much to me and make the prospect of procuring it very
attractive. As to the salary which I
would expect, I am almost at a loss what to say. While, at this stage of my
career, the matter of salary is not the all-important one, at the same time it
is human nature to want to receive what you think you can earn. And so I have
given this part of the subject as much serious thought as the rest. I am convinced that I could
not afford to make the change for less salary than twenty-five dollars per week
and, after very earnest deliberation, think I can honestly earn thirty dollars
per week. I have considered this
matter of salary very carefully, for I don't want to appear to you to be
over-ambitious or to be truing to obtain more than I think I am worth. If you
think that my experience and my ability, so far as you are familiar with it, do
not warrant you in giving me thirty dollars per week, I shall be very glad to
consider what you think you can afford to offer me. Very sincerely, P. N. Berry 4840 Champlain Ave.
Chicago, Illinois
Minneapolis, Minn.
Collection: William Gray Purcell Papers [Not
indexed; presumably in either the P&E office correspondence for 1911 [AR:B4a1.5]
or the Berry Correspondents file [C:22].
research courtesy mark hammons