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Correspondence from Karl Germer to Louis Wilkinson
Los Angeles, Cal.
April 23, 1948.
Dear Mr. Wilkinson,
I am starting out with courage on this letter though I don’t know yet whether I’ll be able to finish it, as the typewriter I’m writing on may break down any moment.
Thank you for your handwritten letter of March 28 which reached me a few days ago. The affairs out here have kept me extremely busy and on edge, but I expect to be able to wind them up next week and to be back in New York by May 1st. It will be a great relief.
I shall be most anxious to know what or how the Receiver, or how not, will react to my last letter. Anyway, your remarks concerning payment of the recent creditors—if the Receiver fails definitely to release the cash found among A.C.’s remains - are most helpful. We’ll deal with this as it develops.
The important thing I want to write you about is the finance. I have received a communication only a few days ago that the £300 transfer has positively not been made. About the £100 payment I have no final word, but as soon as I return to N.Y. I’ll take the matter up from there and take Quick action. I’m sorry about the delay and any worry that has been caused to you and Lady Harris [Frieda Harris].
I enclose copy in duplo of a letter from the printer. I don’t understand their methods at all. I am willing to go on with the printing bearing in mind the advice Gerald Yorke gave. What I want from the printer is a set of galley proofs of Liber Aleph—as A.C. gave it to them—and also of the Golden Twigs. It is possible that A.C. gave an introductory Note to Liber Aleph in its old form (which dates from 1917-18). May-be we should put something in because both books would now be posthumous productions. What do you think?
Yorke’s statement that there are now export restrictions for books and sheets sent over here, sounds almost unbelievable. This would concern any decision of mine to actually go on printing in England, and decide to ask the printer to send the Typescripts to me and start anew in New York. Did you or Mr. Symonds [John Symonds] obtain any further information on this? That aspect must be clear before I proceed with payments.
I agree with your stand on any future bill rendered by the Hastings lawyers. They should have given A.C. the facts about the legal angle. I did not like things from the very beginning when I heard about the tangle. So far I have not heard from them.
Let this be all. I have done a week’s work typing this. But I wanted to tell you my appreciation for your assistance.
Kindest regards, Yours sincerely,
Karl Germer
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