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Correspondence from Louis Wilkinson to Lloyds Bank
17 St. Leonard's Terrace, S.W.3.
13th June, 1948.
Dear Sir,
Executors of E.A. Crowley
The Official Receiver has informed me that he has written to you relinquishing his claim on the moneys deposited at your Bank in the account of the above. I am therefore writing to ask if you will send me a chequebook and if it will be in order if my signature alone appears on the cheques drawn. Enclosed is a letter from my co-executor, Mr. K. J. Germer [Karl Germer] of New York, in which I have marked the relevant passage at the bottom of the first page. There is nothing else relevant to the relinquishment on Mr. Germer's part of his right to sign the cheques as well, but I must send the whole letter, so as to include his address and signature. Will you kindly return it to me and inform me if this constitutes sufficient evidence of Mr. Germer's withdrawal as signatory to cheques? The other co-executor is Lady Harris [Frieda Harris], 3 Devonshire Terrace, Hight St., Marylebone, W.1. I have spoken with her on the telephone and she is quite willing that I should be the only one to sign cheques. Will you kindly confirm this by writing to her, if necessary.
I am leaving London today and my address during the present week is c/o Mrs. MacAlpine [Patricia MacAlpine], Levischie Lodge, Glenmorriston, nr. Inverness. On June 21st I shall be going on to c/o Oliver Wilkinson, Esq., Gleddock Cottages, Langbank, Port Glasgow, Renfrewshire, and that address will find me for the rest of June. The above is my permanent London address.
I enclose specimens of my signature, and hope that it can be arranged for me to sign the cheques on the above account as that will save much delay and trouble. Already, as you are aware, the matter of settlement with the late Mr. Crowley's creditors has been held up for more than six months.
Thank you for the Deposit Account Book. When you are replying, will you let me know how long notice is required to transfer from Deposit to Current Account? Also what I should do with two cheques uncashed by Mr. Crowley at his death—dated respectively Nov. 20 and Nov. 27, m'47, each of value of £1.9.6.—and a Post War Credit Certificate of value £10.1.6. I have informed the lawyers who drew the two cheques and they asked whether Probate had been granted; also I informed the Official Receiver of the existence of these cheques and Post War Credit Certificate. Now that the matter of Mr. Crowley's estate is settled, I would like to be able to add these items to the estate. But I should doubt if the expense of Probate is necessary.
As I understand the situation, the Official Receiver has relinquished his claim because Mr. K.J. Germer has convinced him of the facts of the case which would not justify the old creditors being paid in preference to the recent ones; but the late Mr. Crowley still remains an undischarged bankrupt, so would Probate of the Will be in order?
Yours faithfully,
The Manager, Lloyds Bank, Ltd., Hastings.
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