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13 Jan. 1975

Mr. Alan M. Oster,
Surrey, Warasik, Morse and Seham,
500 Fifth Ave. New York,N.Y.

Dear Mr. Oster:

In regard to the bankbook at the First Federal of Washington, I have my bankbook. When Doris was having that spell of depression in which she could not work, I told her to draw on my savings there. All my savings accounts are in both our names. The only account not in both names is my check-ing account, and I think I told you before I took her name off it because she was writing checks and not telling me. I regret that I did it now. My savings in the First Federal have not been drawn on by her since she recovered and was able to go back to work.

Now I am wondering where those bonds could have gone. She called me up long distance a few weeks before she died to ask me to write a letter stating that those bonds belonged to me, so that she could show the letter to the bank people. At that time her husband (D.Gardner) was trying to get on welfare relief, and she wanted the bank to know that those bonds were not hers but mine, and that her husband really needed the money, if anyone tried to investigate her bank. I wonder if the bank had the bonds, and they were not in her safe deposit box. I can't figure it out. When she died D.Gard-ner was in the hospital and I understand that someone (? you) had the safe deposit box closed from anyone. So her husband wouldn't have been able to get at them and take them out. The bonds were not in anyone's name, so anyone could cash them, but there was $37,000 in bonds. I sent you the cancelled check on which Doris had noted the value of them. It upsets me because I had counted on that money to go me in case I had a long terminal illness and would have to have money to pay for my illness and doctors' bills. I have nothing but Medicare as a health insurance and that does not pay much. Now I have noone to whom I can turn for help if my savings run out.

I enclose a copy of the bill at the morticians. I paid the $635, and you will find that noted at the bottomeof the page, on July 1,1974. I still have to pay for burial of her ashes in the family lot in Stoughton, Mass. when I go up there next spring.

Very truly yours,