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Correspondence from Karl Germer to Gerald Yorke
5 April 1948
Dear Yorke,
A few days ago I wired from California and I am writing this from Los Angeles. The fact is that dear Jane Wolfe is typing this morning.
This morning I found your long letter, dated 25/3/48, from Forthampton, Gloucester, in the mail which had been forwarded to me. I appreciate very much the information you are sending me, but you will realise that it will take me some time to read it over. I may contact Achad [Charles Stansfeld Jones] from here, but I have not yet decided either whether I will do so or in what form. If I do I will certainly let you know or send you a copy, and you can rely on me that contacting him will not in any way embarrass you.
It was news to me that you had raised a family, and I would certainly like to know a little more about it, and the number and the sex of your children. Both I and Jane were very happy to read about this.
Though I cannot go into the details of your letter, there is one thing which forces me to write to you at once. This is that after surveying the conditions in California I have found it preferable to have all the literary materials, books, etc., sent me in New York. My present plans are to acquire a suitable property in the vicinity of either New York, New Jersey or Pennsylvania, where I would not be too far away from New York City, and where I can collect and set up all the material and work on it.
I do hope this change of plans does not come too late and that it will arrive in time to give these corrected shipping instructions. If you have given them please be sure to notify the shippers immediately. In any case I'm writing by the same mail to John Symonds with the same instruction.
The shipments should be addressed as per my letterhead.
Thanks for the information that the Yi King sticks were taken over by Frieda Harris. She is certainly entitled and perfectly welcome to them, though I had been looking forward to receive them for myself. The reason is simply that I haven't got a proper set and have in vain looked all over New York to obtain one—but impossible. If, however, there would be a possibility of picking up a set in London I would gladly pay for one and refund you the money.
There is another question that has struck me: what happened to Aleister's watch, pen and pencil, or any other personal items? I think that I ought to write to Wilkinson [Louis Wilkinson] about this; I happened to think of it just now. There is in particular the picture of A.C.'s, drawn by himself, which hung above his head in the small room. A brother, who visited A.C. several times in the end, was promised this by A.C. I'll write Wilkinson about that.
Kindest regards from Jane and yours
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