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Correspondence from to Gerald Yorke to Karl Germer
25 February 1948
Yours 17/2/48.
I have passed on the shipping details to John Symonds. It only applies to the Whitely stock, as the other has not yet been released by the Bankruptcy people. I am sending the ring by registered post, but not by airmail, to save cash. I brought The Book of the Law[1] round here to send off to you, but Symonds has just phoned me to hold it, as it did not form part of the Whitely stock and so has not been released.
I do not think you should cavil if he holds some three special diaries and about fifteen small square daily diaries and other selected material until he has finished the Life. I understand A.C. wanted him to write it. If it is a success and Heineman's publish it, it would be for you an important step in putting A.C. on the map, and would considerably increase the value of the unsold stock of his books. In any case there is nothing which you or I can do about it, as he is within his rights as literary executor. He is writing a steady 1,000 words a day, and I go up every Saturday morning so that he can pick my brains on the technical side.
I will let you know if Achad [Charles Stansfeld Jones] replies to my request for a copy of Liber 31. But the P.O. Box number to which I wrote may be out of date. I agree with you that he appears crazy in his work to produce and then conceal what he calls the word for the next aeon. From his letters however it looks as if he is prepared to be reasonable about the past, and I am sure he will send you a copy if you ask for one for the historical record. There is no reason why he should send one to me.
I thought I would relieve your eyes by typing, but am sorely out of practice. Delay in answering your last has been due to my doing a little writing of my own.
Yours Truly,
Gerald Yorke.
1—Gerald Yorke is referring to the original manuscript.
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