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1、Primary Sources: Rockefeller Family Ties Dear Father / Dear SonCorrespondence between John D. Rockefeller Sr. and John D. Rockefeller Jr.26 BroadwayNew YorkNovember 28th 1887Dear John:Yours, of the 22nd, duly received. Excuse delay in answering. Have also your telegram of today for the cutter sleigh
2、, and will attend to it tomorrow morning. I assume you want the one to carry two persons. I had a pleasant time in Washington. It is a beautiful city. The weather was mild and lovely. After receiving my testimony they did not wish any other although they had subpoenaed eight of us. We feel very well
3、 about the experience over there. The New York World hasnt any further ammunition in this direction, is now going back to its first love, the Buffalo suit, trying to rake up something against us. Had a delightful Sunday at home yesterday. Feeling well and ready for business. Looking forward with ple
4、asure to seeing you the last of this week.Concur in your decision about painting the storm doors. You and Mother will surely have your own way in all these affairs, whats the use of my saying a word. You are monarch of all you survey.Your loving,Father26 BroadwayJanuary 20th 1888My Dear Son:We all w
5、elcomed yours of the 15th. Were very pleased to hear of your daily experience, and hope both you and Mother will be much better for this quiet country life. I am glad you know about it. It carries me back to my boyhood days. I am having a pair of shoes made to lace up. I am told they support the ank
6、les better. I will bring them with me. Please tell Mother that everything is being done that can be in reference to the telephone wire to Forest Hill. A new route is desired and the effort to secure it makes a little delay. Aunty and I went to the Harlem River this morning with Flash and Midnight in
7、 a new cutter sleigh which cost $300. Very extravagant, I know, but the sleighing is so good could not resist the temptation to buy it and hope to get the worth of our money. I drove four times day before yesterday and three times yesterday making an aggregate in the two days of about eighty miles.
8、Dont you think I am an enthusiastic youth? I am looking forward with great pleasure to seeing you next week but may not leave until Friday.Lovingly,Your FatherHome4 West 54th St.New YorkJanuary 26, 1895My Dear Son:I enclose check to your order for Twenty-one dollars, for your twenty first birthday,
9、being one for each year.It would be very pleasant if we could all spend the day together at home, but I think under the circumstances, it is better for you to remain at college as you have been obliged to be away from your work so much of late.I cannot tell you how much happiness we all have in you.
10、 And how much we are looking forward to, and relying on you for in the future.We are grateful beyond measure for your promise and for the confidence your life inspires in us, not only, but in all your friends and acquaintances and this is of more value than all earthly possessions.We all join in the
11、 hope that this and all the days to come, may bring only good to you, and we rejoice that you know from experience, that good for you, is inseparably connected with the good you bring to others. But this is not a lecture, only a kind word from an affectionate father to a much loved and only son on t
12、he occasion of his 21st birthday.John D. Rockefeller11 Slater HallProv. R.I.February 3, 1895Dear Father,I want again to thank you for the check which you sent me last week and also for the letter that accompanied it.I am grateful if my life brings happiness to you; it should bring much more than I h
13、ave made it. But had I done infinitely better than I have in this particular, I should not even then have made anything like an adequate return for all that you have done for me.I am glad for the confidence which you say my life inspires in you. I feel that I have but too little confidence in myself
14、; but the very fact of you having faith in me will help me to make the most of my life.Be assured, dear Father that my greatest happiness will ever be to do my utmost for you and Mother, and not only to keep clean, but be a credit to the honorable and noble record which you have made. People talk ab
15、out sons being better than their fathers, but if I can be half as generous, half as unselfish, and half as kindly affectionate to my fellow men as you have been, I shall not feel that my life has been in vain.Affectionately,John4 West 54th StreetNew YorkNovember 11, 1899Dear FatherI want to tell you
16、 again of my very deep appreciation of the generous, patient and kindly way in which you have treated me during the anxiety and pressure which has been brought upon you this week largely through me. Most Fathers would have upbraided and stormed, and that too, justly. Because of your forbearance and gentleness you have caused me to feel the more deeply the lesson which this has taught. I would rather have had my right hand cut off than to have caused you this anxiety. My one
