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Correspondence from Braby & Waller to Karl Germer
AIR MAIL
ENCS.
1st March, 1948.
OUR REF.B/Y
K. J. Germer Esq., 260 West 72nd Street, New York City, U. S. A.
Dear Sir,
ESTATE OF MR. ALEISTER CROWLEY
At the request of Mr. Louis Wilkinson we are writing to you to confirm the advice we have given to him on the matter of your claim against Mr. Crowley's estate. Mr. Wilkinson has sent us copies of your two letters to him of January 21st and a copy of the Official Receiver's letter to him of 2nd February, a copy of which we enclosed.
It appears to us that the Official Receiver is right in his view that the monies advanced by you to Mr. Crowley were advanced because of mutual interests and were not held by Mr. Crowley in trust, and that this being so you have no proveable remedy in the bankruptcy or any right against the assets which became vested in the Official Receiver as assets in the bankruptcy.
We note from your second letter of January 21st that you would be prepared to offer the sum of £300, on condition that Mr. Crowley's estate was discharged from bankruptcy. We do not know whether the Official Receiver would accept this sum in settlement of the debts proveable in the bankruptcy, but in any case we understand from Mr. Wilkinson that there are now post-bankruptcy debts due to creditors who would, if the Official Receiver had relinquished his claim, be entitled to claim the assets. In the circumstances, the best course appears to be for you, if you wish, to offer a sum to the Official Receiver for the purchase of the books and manuscripts in which you are interested. We understand that Mr. Wilkinson will communicate with the Official Receiver and ascertain what sum he would be prepared to accept for these.
Yours faithfully,
BRABY & WALLER
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