I am obliged by your letter of yesterday’s date, and hasten to send you,
as requested, the complete dossier of documents. When you have read
them, I shall be happy to call upon you at any time convenient to
yourself, and give you any further information that may be within my
power.
All the points I specially wished to make are, I think, fully covered by
my previous letter. But since that letter has now served its original
purpose of arousing your interest in the matter, I feel that it would be
better forgotten, as far as possible. I would rather you came to the
present documents with an entirely open mind. To me, who have been
working over them for the last six or seven months, they seem to point
clearly to one and only one conclusion, but I suppose it is possible
that both Sir James Lubbock and I may be mistaken. You will judge for
yourself. I only most earnestly beg of you to give the case your most
careful consideration. You will realise that it is of vital importance
to me to have the matter fully investigated.
You will, I fear, find some of the letters and statements very diffuse
and full of irrelevancies. I thought it best to send the originals,
complete and untouched, exactly as they stand. Many of the incidental
details, though unimportant in themselves, throw useful sidelights on
the situation, and will, I think, help a stranger, like yourself to
understand exactly what took place in my late father’s household.
I have arranged the papers, as nearly as possible, in chronological
order. My own statement (Number 49) explains fully how the various
documents came into my hands.
Trusting to hear further from you in due course,
I am, dear sir,
Yours faithfully,
PAUL HARRISON
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