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Correspondence from Karl Germer to Louis Wilkinson
April 23, 1948
Dear Mr. Wilkinson,
Going out to mail the enclosed letters I find yours of April 18 in the mail, forwarded from New York, which is fast indeed. Thank you. It appears then that you have received £100 which relieves my worry. Your disbursements, as per your list, are quite all right. I suppose this leaves me time for any further transfer that I may have to make. I'm glad about this because the whole situation, as far as the total of required needs, is concerned, is so completely vague and uncertain at the moment. As soon as I shall positively know what we will need for the printer (if any) and all the other payments, I can make the necessary arrangements.
Your mentioning Mrs. MacAlpine [Patricia MacAlpine] and Aleister's son [Aleister Ataturk] raises, however, another point. I had written Mrs. MacAlpine over three months ago that if she were in need of assistance for the boy to let me know. It was mainly a question of paying for the education and the school terms where she had no doubt whether she could scrape the fee together for the March term. I had not heard from here for two months at least. As she is now in London I would much appreciate having from you at your leisure a fairly complete statement on her plans and the soundness of her ideas about A.'s education. The whole group out here in the Order is keenly interested in this and they all want to do what they can to help along in these difficult times in Europe. Please tell me, therefore, in all frankness what you think or advise, plus the facts.
There has been the problem of A.C.'s name. She wanted my advice, and listening to her I thought it might be best not to change his present name to that of Crowley. A.C. had wished or advised that this be done at once. I have now come to the conclusion that all things considered it might be best to change his name and adopt the name of Crowley now. Not knowing local conditions, in schools, etc., it is up to Mrs. MacAlpine to make the final decision.
Parcels have been mailed from California to Mr. and Mrs. Watson [Herbert Watson] so I tend to agree with you that no further payment is necessary. I hear that Mr. Vernon Symonds [Vernon Symonds] has taken for himself all the many parcels that arrived after A.C.'s death, despite the fact that some of these carried a second address of Watson. I was not very happy when I heard this.
Sincerely yours,
Karl Germer
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