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Correspondence from Louis Wilkinson to Karl Germer
c/o Mrs. de Selincourt, Grove Heath, Ripley, Surrey. England.
10th March, 1950.
Dear Mr. Germer,
I am glad to have your Air Letter of February 8th and your other letter of February 27th, which latter reached me this morning. I am not at all disappointed that you find that the item of £2.14.7 was entered by mistake, but the reverse because this means that my accounts are correct, and tally with yours. I appreciate your consideration in reimbursing the £8.7.4 expenses that I incurred for payment for typing. I wish, as we all do, that I were well enough off not to have to trouble about any reimbursements where A.C. and his work are concerned, and you must not feel any sort of qualm about executor's fee, for the waiving of that, especially under the circumstances, is a very small gesture for me to make, and I am glad to make it, also to waive the matter of the small expenses that I have incurred as executor since A.C.'s death.
I note that we agree that the sum now remaining is £20.2.6, and I will apply this to the next school fees, as you suggest. There seems to us only one other item of expenditure in the future, and that is the cost of the shipment of the remaining A.C. material to you. You referred to this material in a recent letter. I hear this morning from John Symonds: "I have been making good use of my illness and convalescence by working hard on the Crowley Life. Have made great strides into the remaining gaps in the book, can see daylight through it and should have it finished within a month. Thank God! It has been a most involved job." John S. is, as you know, an extremely busy journalist, and this attack of jaundice that he has had was, I think, brought on by overwork—his work on A.C. added to that of his usual routine. I know he has appeared often to be dilatory, but I think he had some excuse, and there is no that he has taken this Life seriously and with enthusiasm. Now that, after so much delay, the end of the book seems really in sight, you should receive what remains of the material within a reasonable time.
Enclosed are receipts for the school fees that you mention and for the Black Douglas book, which I am glad reached you safely. If there are any other receipts that you want, let me know, and I will send either the receipts or cancelled cheques. I had already written to Deirdre MacAlpine [Patricia MacAlpine] and had received from her the enclosed. I am now filling in the amount as I had left this blank until hearing from you. She has also sent me the school receipts for that period, but you will not, I think, require these as well as the enclosed.
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