This document is a letter from John Brinkley II to his son, John Brinkley III, who is referred to as Johnnie Boy. The letter is meant to wish John Brinkley III well on his eighth birthday. John Brinkley III was the youngest of Brinkley’s five children, his only surviving son, and his only child with his second wife, Minnie Brinkley (“John Richard Brinkley II.”).