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Correspondence from Louis Wilkinson to Karl Germer
c/o Mrs. de Selincourt, Grove Heath, Ripley, Surrey. England.
9th February, 1950.
Dear Mr. Germer,
Thank you for your letter of 24th January with the enclosed Account which I return herewith after having made certain additions. The discrepancy between the totals of the two columns would be rectified if the sum £2.14.7 (the sixth item under Disbursements were deleted. I did not enter this sum in my accounts as I suppose that it was already included under the items towards which I had advanced it. Is this correct? You are more of a business man than I am. If it is not correct, then the two columns would tally by entering £25.15.3 as Cash in Hand instead of £28.9.10 which id the Cash still in Hand according to my reckoning. You will find that the additional disbursements inserted in ink have all been submitted to you—but at such varying intervals than I can well understand the difficulty in keeping track of them.
I sympathize fully with what you say about the paramount importance of payments for A.A.'s [Aleister Ataturk] education. And I am sure that Lady Harris [Frieda Harris] feels as I do. As to her claim as executrix—which she suggested only tentatively—I expect she has now forgotten about it. She mentioned the possibility, under the circumstances of which I told you, but she had not referred to it since and I doubt if she will do so again. In any case she would certainly accept the reason against—shortage of funds. The balance can well be left standing until the financial situation becomes clearer. I was led to mention the possibility of my receiving a ten guinea payment as executor partly by finding an old bill that I had paid for the typing of some of the Abridged Commentary—£8.7.4. I was not, I know, reimbursed for this by A.C., but I don't want to claim for it after this long interval. It was only that finding this bill made me feel that I might the more reasonably claim something as executor—that, in a way, this would cover that bill too. A somewhat illogical and unbusinesslike feeling! It really does not matter about the ten guineas that I suggested for myself, and, as I said, in any case it could await developments. Actual expenses incurred by Lady Harris and myself as executors—such as fee for swearing to Probate, etc.—as so inconsiderable that they are hardly worth itemizing.
I am enclosing typed copies of any letters from A.C. bearing on the work of the Abridgement of the Commentary on the Book of the Law. Gerald Yorke has had all A.C.'s letters to me typed and I have received the revised typescript since I last wrote to you. It is therefore easier to look through this for relevant letters than to look through the originals. Would you please let me have the enclosed back, quite at your leisure, so that I can replace them with the main body of the typed letters?
I am enclosing receipted bill from the Hastings lawyers. As to the receipts for A.A.'s school fees, I think I have sent you some of these, or the relevant cancelled cheques; but I will get Deirdre MacA. [Patricia MacAlpine]. To send you any receipts that you require, in hearing from you. I mentioned in my last letter that these receipts are sent to her. If you prefer, you could make out a receipt for the total sums up to date that have been disbursed for A.A., including the £10 contributed recently to D. MacA., and send it either to me or to her for her signature.
It is good news that there is a possibility of the publication of the abridged Commentary. Yes, my Introduction was accepted by A.C. But it is of course possible that he would have made some further emendations had he lived.
With best greetings and wishes,
Yours sincerely,
Louis Wilkinson
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