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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Yeah Um, I often had suspicions about, um what he said he had and what he actually, in fact, did have.

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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Now, he tempted me by telling me he had film.

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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
He, he had some prints back there somewhere in the cellar, and I knew if he had prints back there in the cellar, they're useless, because it was very warm down there,

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and the things I was talking about were already, like, um, 50 years old.

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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
So they're not going to be preserved under those conditions at all. So if he had it,

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it may have been there and he sort of forgotten it over the years but I doubt, y'know, how usable the material would be. It wasn't.

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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Um, then it was very strange because his wife whom I thought did not like me. Um, because I think she got wind of the fact that I was working in some downtown museum,
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alright, and I was a reporter sent up to pick out information for some white institution.

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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
So, she didn't like me and she almost didn't- she put me off for two months, two months she had me coming back, I mean, I was very persistent because I wanted very much to talk with him.

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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
I still assumed at that point that he was to related to Oscar Michelle

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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Uh, I would come in and she wouldn't give me a time and he'd be there and she said, "I don't know come back tomorrow maybe he'll be here around two o'clock" and I'd come back come back the next day at 2 o'clock and uh, "he's not here hes left for the day.". This went on for about two months, finally--

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{Unknown Speaker 1} [[unintelligible]]

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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
No she could wear me out,

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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Finally uh I met, in one one such trip to the store I met an elderly gentlemen who was there to see Michelle also and he was buying books.
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And he turned out to be a black historian who, um, you know was busy documenting literature and art and--and adventures and somehow he was looking for material.

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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Uh, Louis Michelle looks to her and I explained to him what I was doing, how I could never get to see Louis Michelle he said,
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"I know him I'll set up an appointment for you and I'll call you" and I go back to see him because he would buy rare books from him. Um, "I'll take you along with me and I'll send you right down to see him" and this guy

Transcription Notes:
---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-05-14 18:53:39 Added Speaker names, corrected minor errors, and added more frequent timestamps.