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Correspondence from Karl Germer to Louis Wilkinson
K. J. GERMER 260 West 72nd Street New York 23, N.Y. Endicott 2-6799
January 5, 1948.
Dear Mr. Wilkinson,
Yours of Dec. 31st with copy of your letter to the Official Receiver came this moment, which allows me to add a short note to my letter written yesterday.
Most of your questions are really answered by mine already. I do not think I have any criticism or comment to make to your letter to the Receiver. I think it very good.
I am glad you were in time to stop payment of your check for Whiteley's. But I cannot see how the Receiver can force the printers to hand over the unfinished products and their consenting to do without being paid first. The Receiver's idea to take and sell the proofs and possible the MSS. seems phantastic to me. Who then would be the owner of the Copyrights. I believe we have to establish first whether a Will of the sort that A.C. made was legal and can be probated or not.
I am in a hurry to get my letter of Jan. 4th to you, otherwise I would hold it until I have seen my lawyer for his views *which may not be applicable to English procedure.)
Does the Receiver then claim also the files, MSS. and all other material which are now at Mr. Symonds' [John Symonds]? This worries me more than the rest. Also, would he reimburse you for the expenses which you and Lady Harris [Frieda Harris] have paid out? This touches the point you have already mentioned: whose property are the£ 460 found in cash? I claim: mine, because it was (mostly) my funds which I sent to A.C. for a stated purpose. Mostly because his small income from The Trust Fund was insufficient.
By all means, if you think Lady Harris' lawyer better under the circumstances, consult him.
I presume you have seen the Bank Statements of the $2400 which I transferred to A.C. from May to September. I might add that I made another payment to him of £160 on Nov. 5th direct from London.—In this connection let me say that I could send you about £150 to £250 around January 31 which are owed to me in England. As I cannot get this money out of the country, I would much prefer to use these Funds to any necessary sum the Order would be called upon to pay ultimately. However, if there actually were an emergency, and you would require some funds at once, I imagine you could count on, say, a sum of £200 within a period of about two weeks. But I would hate to let go of my valuable dollars when Sterling will soon be available.
Let this be all for now. Kindly keep me informed of further developments.
Sincerely yours,
Karl Germer
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