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\date {June 28}
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\to {Carr, McClellan, Ingersoll, Thompson and Horn\cr
216 Park Road\cr
P.O. Box 513\cr
Burlingame, Calif. 94010-0513\cr}
{\noindent Gentlemen:}

Please change your records to reflect my correct address as shown above.

The address that you used for this bill is some eight years out of date
and only by unusually good fortune did your letter reach me.  Mr.
Bredenbeck is aware of my correct address.

\sign {\hfill Sincerely yours,\cr\ssqip\cr
\hfill Arthur L. Samuel}

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\to {Mrs Donna Hussain\cr
Las Cruces, NM\cr}

{\noindent Dear Donna:}

My authority for English usage, Fowler, spends nearly two pages discussing 
`to that or not to that' and says the following:

``It may be useful to give tentative lists... of verbs that (1) prefer t.
expressed, (2) prefer t. ommitted, and (3) vary according to the tone of
the context. (1)T. is usual with {\it agree, assert, assume, aver,
calculate, conceive, hold, learn, maintain, reckon, state, suggest}; (2) T.
is unusual with {\it believe, presume, suppose, think}; (3) T. is used or
ommitted with {\it be told, confess, consider, declare, grant, hear, know,
preceive, propose, say, see, understand}, depending on the intended tone of the
sentence [the t. makes the pronouncement more formal and weighty].''

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\to {Mr. Arthur H. Bredenbeck\cr
{\noindent Dear Mr. Bredenbeck:}

The deed to the Walnut Creek property has been found and is enclosed.
As you will note, the property is held in my name as a married man.

I concur in your decision with respect to my wife's estate.  You can argue
that the action is not in fact at variance with the my wife's intent as
expressed in the thwarted will, since the control of the cancelled trust
was expressly reserved to me and had the trust not been terminated before
her death it could the have been terminated after her death.

Should there be a hitch in this plan, would it help if I were to reinstate
the trust that I had drawn up, with my daughter Donna and me as trustees.
You could then petition the court to accept this trust as a substitute for
the original trust since it reproduced the original trust in every respect
except for the name of the trustees and a change of trustees was permitted
under the original trust.

\to {The Citizens National Bank and Trust Co.\cr
Emporia, Kansas 66801\cr}
{\noindent Gentlemen:}

I am writing in regard to the trust fund that you administer for Arthur L.
Samuel and Bernice D. Samuel held for the College of Emporia (which, of
course, no longer exists), and from which we receive quarterly checks,
made payable to ``Arthur L. Samuel and Bernice D. Samuel''.

My wife, Bernice Samuel, died on May 24th 1982 as a result of a Myocardial
Rupture.  Mrs Samuel's death is recorded in the Santa Clara County
Register of Vital Statistics, San Jose, California.  Will you please note
this fact in your records.

As provided for in the original agreement, please make all future
quarterly checks payable in my name only and mail them to my usual address
as noted above.


I am enclosing Xeroxed copies of some pertinent documents relating to the
accounts with Dean Witter. These include copies of four of the Mutual
Investment Trust Fund Certificates.  One certificate seems to be missing
as I later bought 5 additional units of the First California Series.  I
believe that this is held in a street account as evidenced by one of the
enclosed monthly statements.  The two monthly reports are not quite up tp date
as I have been unable to find more recent ones.  Bernice was the financial
secretary and I am having difficuulties in finding things.

You will note that the certificates in our two names are held ``as joint tenents 
with right of survivorship and not as tenents in common'', which should
simplify things.  This, by the way, is the way that the joint AT\&T stock is
held.

I am also enclosing a fairly recent report on the Dreyfus Fund held in
Bernice's Name.

I have not been able to find any trace of the deed for the Walnut Creek 
condominium.

For your information, I have opened a second checking account in my name
only and I now have a new safety deposit box with my daughter Donna as an
alternate signer.  Arrangements have been made to have all direct
deposits, including Social Security, made to my new account and I will
keep the old account for the deposit of checks made out to Bernice until
this is no longer necessary.

att. Mr Thomas Pietroski\cr
Old Orchard Road\cr
Armonk, NY 10504\cr}
{\noindent Dear Mr. Pietroski:}

This is to confirm the phone request that I made to the personnel department
at Yorktown to have the mail address for my IBM pension check
changed from my account at the Stanford Branch of the Bank of America to
my home address as given above.  The joint checking account to which the
check has been sent is to be terminated because of the death of my wife.

I joined IBM in 1949 and retired from IBM Research in 1966, my employee
serial number is 480480, and my social security number is 091-09-8617.
My wifes social security number was 144-07-2677.

Other changes  have, I believe, been already implemented, these being to
discontinue the medicare payment for my wife Bernice D. Samuel, who died
on May 24th 1982 and to remove her name as a beneficiary under my pension
plan.

While I am writing, I would like to unburden myself on the subject of
retirement plans.
For what it is worth, I am not in favor of compulsory retirement,
neither of the plan that was in effect when I was forced to retire, nor of
the modified plan that IBM still uses.

Let me sight my own case.  On my retirement from IBM, I joined the faculty
of Stanford University with a one year's appointment. This appointment has
been renewed from year to year and it has been again renewed for the next
academic year. This will be my 17th year of post-retirement
employment, a period that equals the the total time of my employment by
IBM.

While I had to sell my home in the east and move to a different part of
the country, I have been lucky in being able to find other employment and
to find employment that permits me to do a substantial amount of
indepentent consulting.  Were this not the case, I would have been badly
hurt by inflation.

There are many retired people who are not as lucky as I have been
but who are in good health and who
could remain productive if but given the chance.  It
seems little short of criminal that society is denied the services of
these people simply because industry is unwilling to find a way to retire
those few unfortunate individuals who fail to keep up with the times
without at the same time penalizing those who can and do keep up and who
would prefer to remain productive.