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Correspondence from Karl Germer to Louis Wilkinson
K.J. GERMER 260 West 72nd Street New York 23 N.Y. Endicott 2-6799
December 12, 1948.
Dear Mr. Wilkinson,
Thank you for your letter of Dec. 3rd. I want to write you so that you get this before leaving your present address.
As to your proposal to deal with the debtors I shall agree with your handling this. I abide by your judgment which has proved so excellent. This applies to the lawyers' bill—Braby & Waller—though their advice appears now to have been wrong; and to the Doctors bills, which I trust you can also scale down somewhat. (Is that doctor 'who attended A.C. in his last illness' the one that according to newspaper stories died so suddenly within 18 hours of A.C.?
There is a payment that I want made to Lady Harris [Frieda Harris] for the 'Memorial' [The Last Ritual]. I had offered her $1.00 per copy; she sent me 12, and later, when she told me there were more available, and I asked her for another 12, she mailed me about 25, which I have in storage. I think if you pay her $25.00 this would be adequate, or more. Would you be good enough to give her a check for the equivalent, i.e. six guineas?
I know this does not come under the Will proper. My view is that (1) the Court judged that the money was from me, and not from A.C. (2) as we certainly are not going to pay the printer another nickel, but rather try to collect from him the 100 he got from us as an advance on the work, you can strike off that item. (3) should there be a deficit—which I doubt, and rather think and hope there will be a balance left—then I would make up by sending additional funds from there, though I have already made a transfer, as you will remember, of £100 from here.
Do not bother to send me accurate figures; what you have told me makes the picture clear enough to me, and I presume you will now soon get final bills, so that you can close the affair.
When you do not need the receipts from the National City Bank, please return them to me at your leisure. The Danish Note has not arrived yet.
Was glad to hear A.C. was not forgotten on Dec. 1. I wish I'd have been present there too, if for no other reason than to eat that delicious curry and rice tafel which I remember in that Indian restaurant so well!
Did you read the letter I wrote to Frieda Harris on Nov. 26th? I wish I'd sent you a copy. It covers my position in several respects.—Have you seen the material that John Symonds [John Symonds] still holds? Yorke [Gerald Yorke] wrote me that he feared the diaries might be seized when arriving in New York—by the Customs. This sounds fantastic to me. Frieda Harris expressed the same thought early this year—yet everything has arrived safely—was hardly seriously inspected. If you have seen the material—does it look really so frightful? I wish John Symonds would get it ready for shipment soon!
With kindest regards,
Sincerely yours,
Karl Germer
P.S. Thank you very much for the clipping re Augustus John mentioning A.C., the black magician.
K. J. G.
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