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Correspondence from Grady McMurtry to Jean Sihvonen
[EXTRACT]
[27 December 1958]
Did A.C. give me any authority? . . . Well, yes and no, but unfortunately none that we could use as a legal device in the present instance. I think the best thing for me to do is to give you a chronology ordering of extracts of letters and documents I have from him that might have some bearing on the subject.
[McMurtry then proceeds to provide his list.]
So there it is, what there is of it. This is merely a fraction of the correspondence I have from him, but it is the fraction bearing on the question of 'authority.' As you can see, there isn't much of it. Essentially, what it boils down to is that I have no more, and no less, authority than does any other fully paid up and officially accepted member of the IXth degree, O.T.O. Of course, all things considered, that may very well be enough, but I do not think it is what you and the Burlingames [Ray Burlingame and Mildred Burlingame] were asking for.
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