The letter writing propensities of the late August Schilling, millionaire coffee and spice magnate, were revealed yesterday as an expensive items in the settlement of his estate.

Executors of the estate yesterday filed a petition in Redwood City to compromise the claim of a former woman employee of Schilling for $7,500. At the same time it was revealed that the estate has been settling numerous similar claims.

An item of $2,400 was paid to another woman, former employee, recently, and there is now pending in the San Francisco Superior Court an action for $138,000 brought by still another woman employee.

The expensive item in Schilling’s letter to Mrs. Frances B. Tuma of San Francisco, whose claim the estate asks to settle for $7,500, was this succinct paragraph: "I will send you a check for $300 a month as long as I live. When I will be no longer, my estate obligates itself to pay you $100,000."

The letter, presented as an exhibit in yesterday’s action, was written by Schilling to Mrs. Tuma on September 3, 1929. Schilling was declared incompetent on October 17, 1932, and his two sons, Carl and Rudolph Schilling, were made executors of his estate.

The claim pending in San Francisco grows out of a similar letter, written by Schilling on the same day, to Mrs. Jessie P. Mylius. The letter, according to Mrs. Mylius claim, promises her a salary of $6,000 a year and bequest of $100,000 in his will.

The $2,400 was paid to Mrs. Miriam White in Redwood City. Attorneys for the estate declare that Mrs. White’s claim was merely for services.

The letter to Mrs. Tuma is a rambling document, discussing Mrs. Tuma’s "winning smile" and several books Schilling says he gave her to read.

When Schilling was declared incompetent in 1932 his estate was appraised at $3,250,000, yielding an annual income of $140,000. He died last August at the age of 80.

The hearing on the petition to compromise in the case of Mrs. Tuma was set for October 29 before Superior Judge Franklin Swart at Redwood City.