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143 Market Street, Brantford, Ont*, June 14th, 1921 Dear Louie and Allie:- While in Victoria, Jim strongly urged me, aa being in a sense neutral, by not being very much interested in Mother1 a will, to take the initiative and urge along the settlement of the estate* Charlie added his appeal to this when I saw him in Toronto on my return, *».nd when 1 got home Frank also thought it advisable. Consequently I got in touch with Stanley Bougtoer and after n long discussion'I learned where matters stood and what seerned necessary to be Kr* 3ouglmer now has the money in, which totals 15,200* He has also entered for probate (wly, I do not know) though stating them to.be of no present value, certain bonds of the ,.'•• Bell & Son Co*, which %re somewhat va^ely mentioned in the will, although he has nothing to show that they ever belonged to the estate* lie is now particularly concerned in getting Ms bands on them, as a copy of the probate having been sent to the charitable institutions, the official government referee is not inclined to take his word that they are of no present value* You may have heard that Frank, Charlie, Mary and I had a meeting la-ft Fall with !fr» Boughner and his lawyer, Mr* Innes, at which things were discussed, arm after Kr . Boughner and Mr* Innes left, we four formulated a sort of wgentl an an1 s agreement" which was to be submitted to the rest of the heirs for their approval or otherwise* Later that agreement seemed unsatisfactory to sorn^, and we now know that it was no good as it was based on a wrong interpretation of the will* If you will refer to the paragraph in the will which tells what roust be d-jne in r *^g rd to carrying out the terms of father1 s will you will see that that must be settled before any other of Mother's bequests can be gone on with* s'his is the interpretation of Mr* Innee, and is what Lawyer Sweet here advised Mary some time a,go* Now that paragraph refers to you two, i'ranjc arm myself, only, so the first step rests with us* There are two alter natives for us to proceed upon*--first, to agree mutually on the juatiwe of our individual claims under Father* 8 will, second, to have the courts decide whether all or any of us have any claim or not and ho^r muc •* This latter way of course would mean the opening up of a very large question including a complete review of the handling of Father's estate from ths time of his death all down through the mmy years until it ceased to exist, and the levying of Executor1 a fcW for Frank, etc* Further, if this were done it would probably also mean that the courts would also handle th* rest of Mother1 s will, with the likely result that by the time it-wai all settled the costs would have exhausted the estate with nothing left for any children, Ifor charitable institutions, to say nothing of the publicity*