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Correspondence from Karl Germer to Jane Wolfe
Hampton N.J. P.O. Box 581
[Undated: circa February 18, 1956]
Dear Jane,
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Yours of Feb. 12. It seems the Gods of initiation have been dealing with you. I am glad your health is better and that you have new courage.
You quote VII, iii, 40-42. There are so many other angles that I could quote, such as VII, ii, 18, or 49—and, again, so many others. What a book!
You did not, however, mention some practical things. Did you stay with the Smith's [Wilfred Talbot Smith], and what impressions did you get? It would interest me, if you care to write about it.
Meanwhile, you will have heard from my brief letters to Ero [Ero Sihvonen] that it may be that I can get through with this house deal after all. In a week or two I will know more.
Tell Ero and Jean [Jean Sihvonen] that I have got their letter about the purchase of their house. I hope they had a bargain and are getting a house that is decently built and will not require immediate repairs and improvements the moment they begin to occupy it. Just in the last few days radio and newspaper were full of warnings and congressional investigations on abuses of that sort, especially where G.I.'s were concerned. If they can take the house over in April, I expect to be there by that time to make plans for help in manual work where the printing is concerned.—The arrangement of the house and general set-up just made to order. I still have not decided where to store the archives—Barstow, Phyllis [Phyllis Seckler], Malibu (though that seems the last place for me to chose), or Mildred's [Mildred Burlingame] Storage as a temporary place.
In case you go to visit Phyllis, please write me your impressions and give her my love and the news; she wrote a month or two ago I haven't answered her for lack of positive news.
Love is the law, love under will.
Fraternally,
Karl
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