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Jane Wolfe Diary Entry circa November 1924
V.L. [Adam Murray] cannot handle small sums like a salary, for instance. In Johannisburg he "was unable to live on his salary", as he told me, so systematically he pawns any and everything he had: taking out only to re-pawn again during all his years there. The month of October, during which time we had for use £23, saw us at times destitute, again with but 2/6 between us for the day, some days nothing at all. But all this is a mere detail compared with the fact that the C.P. stock (placed at his disposal Thursday) is still with that firm. I was dumfounded when he said; "Oh, but I don't need money to move the books - a furniture storage will haul and store without payment in advance"!!!! And instead of hustling out that stock, he has been growsing, and wearing out shoe leather racing here for dollar bills from Chicago. He has O.P.V. [Norman Mudd] finding a cheap room nightly, when he should have a place in which to work.
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