Dr. H. Spencer Lewis sick and tired of certain people (Tampa, 1927)

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S U P R E M E T E M P L E F O R N O R T H A M E R I C A

R O S I C R U C I A N S O U A R E T A MP A . F L O R I DA . U . S . A .

( U N I V E R S A L C A B L E A ND T E L E G R A P H A D D R E S S l A M O R C O )

April 16, 1927.

Miss Ragnie Rlesner,43 Octavia St#,

San Fransisoo> Oalif*

Dear Ragnie:

I have Just received your letter in regard to Dr* Friis Holm. I tell you little sister X am getting very tired of the persons all over this country who think that we have a great fortune to give away and are constantly making demands

on us for money. Do you know that sinoe we left San Franeisco

every body that we did business with has tried to discover

that we owed them money. In nine cases so fa* we have had to

go to a lawyer here with our receipts and show that we had paid the bills and after the lawyers had got through each one

of the companies wrote back a letter that they were sorry they hade made a mistake. Every few weeks somebody else in 8an-

Fransisco tries to find us to tell us something more or to

have more business with us and when they find that we have moved

from Octavia Street they send us a bill then for some goods.

Fortunately we have all our Kreoeipts and it simply makes us

wonder how these other people keep their records*

Now in regard to the Doctor let me tell you that the money was loaned to Brother Moore and I know that some af it was used for the Lodge* It was borrowed by him just when he came to San Fransieco not when we came from New York. It had nothing to do with our moving from San Franeisco at all as you know very

well that we were in San Franeisco a whole year before Brother

Moore came at least eight or nine months. And since the money

deal was with Brother Moore it could not have been in connection

with our coming to San Fransisco. Furthermore Brother Moore kept no record of it on our books or in any other plaoe. He

simply paid some of it back from time to time to the Dootor and

then when she went to India she told him to make the rest of

the payments to her cousin who lived in San Fransisoo* When I left I understood that all of it had been paid except possiHr

another twenty five dollars* Ina&ct her cousin came very often

to us after us after Brother Moore left for more moi^r and twice



we gave her twenty-five dollars in addition to what Brother Moore had given her. Now we received several letters recently from the Doctor and she says that she only got one twenty-five dollar payment from her cousin. And that her oousin says that she did not get any more than twenty-five dollars from us in

the three years that she was out of the country. And I wrote to the Doctor at once and told her that that was not true and that she would have to take the matter up with Brother Moore

or her cousin and let me know exactly how much was coming to her# As I understood it the ornginal loan was for three hundred dollars* And I know that we have paid back almost all of it or at least two hundred and fifty dollars. Now she says there is still two hundred dollars due her because she did not get

more than twenty five dollars from her cousin. I am not going to take the Doctors word for it alone. If I was to do this

with every body who writes to us for money I would have to have a millionaires bank aocount. We would go into bankruptcy next

week if I would pay everybody's bill who thinks they have money coming to them.

Four members in 8an Fransisoo who are not connected .with the Order now and who gave money to the building of the new temple in San Fransisco have written 1d ufc saying that they loaned me not the order several hundred dollars to build the new Temple on Ootavia 8t., and want the money back. Each one of

them say that we have so much money that surely we would*nt miss a few hundred dollars. It makes me tired. Where do they think

we could get all this money to give every ttody money who thinks they should have it.

And I wonder whether the members in San Fransisco realize that in all the years sinoe we left there none of their money

has come to us through Royal support or donations of any kind.It is true that your lodge has made payments for magazines or any thing of that kind but there has not been a single bit of Royal support and not a bit of donations from the Radio fund.Even the New York Lodge which is in a far worse predicament than the San Fransisco Lodge has been able to send a good donation to the Radio Fund. But we have not had a single word about it from San Fransisco or from any of the members. We have not made any complaint about this matter but we do think that

when it comes to helping with the Radio Fund or with things like that we should have some ward, some encouragement or some help from the west. The members in the new Lodge at Los Angeles

have sent donations and in fact every part of the country except

San Fransisco. It looks very strange. Yet the members in

San Fransisco do not hesitate to write to us and tell us that we aught to return some money to this person or we aught to do that for that person or something else just as though we had a gold mine here and was making our gold coin. I cannot understandit at all. They don't seem to realize that every penny that we have here to spend we have to figure with very oarefully and

many months we are in a deficit which has to be made up in order to keep up our good financial name. Going back again to the Doctor let me tell you that she went to the New York Lodge and tried to collect this money and she gave Brother Lawrence a

different story and a different amount. She told him that there

was one hundred dollars due her and she wanted to collect some 6f



it* Now she tells me there is two hundred and in another letter I have she says it is nearly three hundred. In one letter she says she loaned the money to Brother Moore while she was in

New York before he oame to San Fransisco and in smother letter she says she loaned it to me and now she says in this letter to

your father and to you that she loaned it to help us to get

from New York to San Fransisco. I want-to know what the truth of it was because I have nothing to do with the original loan although I presume it was used partly for some of our work. But I am not going to keep on paying out bills just because somebody says we owe them. We would have to have a big fortune tomorrow to .do this if we were going to listen to every body. What I

would like to see would be a little more help frop the members throughout the country instead of depending upon me to make up all of the bills which I have had to do during the past year.

Your letter to tie Doctor was perfectly satisfactory and I

wrote to her to let me know precisely when she loaned the money to whom she loaned it and I wanted her to find out from her cousin just how much she got back and I am going to compare this with

other letters that she has written. You have nothing more to do with it at your end or in your city and we will take care of the rest of it from now on.

With all kindest regards to every one

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Dr. H. Spencer Lewis sick and tired of certain people (Tampa, 1927)