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Correspondence from Karl Germer to Philip Kaplan
West Point, Calif.
July 20, 1958.
Dear Philip:
Your postcard reminding me of your letter of June 28, which I had not attended to. I simply could not force myself to go more deeply into the matter; firstly, you had written just after your return, and I expected to hear from you about your talks, and/or any arrangements you had made with Yorke [Gerald Yorke]; secondly, before your departure you had made only a cursory survey of the material, and wanted to tell me more details when back in N.Y. Thirdly, and most important, for the last month I have been feverishly working on getting ready for publication one of the most important books of A.C.'s which is not yet printed in English. This is for the Zürich group; you never mentioned whether you visited then in Stein or Zürich?
My situation is this that I should have been the one to acquire all of that collection which was really A.C.'s property. But as I wrote you, I do not have any funds in reserve, at this time anyway. Should this situation change, I would be the first to take quite a number of the books off your hands which you might want to sell. Unfortunately, I do not know when this might be.
Are you going to make a list of the duplicates you want to sell? And are you going to list prices? Here are the items which I either do not have, or which have been stolen:—
Lot 25 in Lund's [Robert Lund] list: Sire De Maletroit's Door / Snowdrops [Snowdrops from a Curate's Garden] / Time
The 2 items marked * are the ones I am most eager to acquire. Are they in your duplicate list?
Did you get any more material from Lund in the way of manuscripts or, letters, or other material that was not in his formal list?
I should have liked to hear more about your visit to Europe and what your general impressions were. I suppose you have been too busy.—Tell me soon about the above books, as I should not like to lose my chance.
With my best wishes,
Sincerely
Karl.
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