[A letter on the letterhead of Kramer & Price, 306 Snell Building, Fort Dodge,
Iowa 50501.]

Vern A. Kramer
R. Thomas Price

   				July 23, 1970

Mrs. Emilie Lind
Missouri State Hospital, No. 4
Farmington, Missouri 63640


Dear Emilie:

I was out to see France last evening and he showed me a letter which he had
received from you and I also have been called to the Clerk's office with
reference to several letters which you have written to the Clerk of Court.

Neither I nor anyone else, I presume, can stop you from writing letters nor
from changing your viewpoint or attitude on a number of things.  It is about
time that you were told some of [the] things that have happened, if you do not
already know.

Shortly after Johanna's death, more than eight years ago, your daughter,
Pauline, and a man I presume was her husband, along with your x-husband, came
to Alwin's home about picking up some of the things including an organ, which
for many year, was in the livingroom.  Alwin, who wanted no part of the
matter, left and went to Walter's until the truck left.  Needless to say, the
home was pretty well stripped and I have been informed that the truck was
pretty well loaded.  In talking to Alwin down through the years, I seriously
question whether or not he ever went to the room which you had occupied, and
at the time I was appointed as Executor of his estate, about the only thing
that you list that could have been there were some boxes which I was told you
had filled.  These boxes are still there.  There was no sled, nor any of the
other items of furniture which you have inquired about, as near as I can
figure them out.  Where they are and what happened to them, I do not know.

As I have been informed by the family, Johanna had some good dishes and
silverware which likewise were not there, at least at the time of Alwin's
death.  What happened to them, I do not know, nor do the other members of the
family with whom I talked.  Consequently, it will do you no good to harass
anyone concerning these items of which you speak.

As an officer of the District Court, I have no choice as to what to do except
to follow the terms of the law.  You have a guardian of your property
appointed under the laws of the state of Missouri who is responsible for your
property that comes into his hands and likewise, whatever use is made of the
proceeds.  It would be entirely up to him under the laws of Missouri and
under the Orders of the Court as to whether or not any monies are set aside
for your burial or for your personal needs or use.  He likewise, is subject
to the laws of the state of Missouri and the Orders of the Court under which
he was appointed.