sale and I bought considerable stuff including a roller, set of harrows 17.50, hay 7.25, rope, double trees 2.25, high-chair .75, old table .10, patent bed 7.25 and some wood 1.25. Frank backed my note for 6 months. I went down to band-practice to-night and had a pretty good blow. I was the only bass there and we have a lot of heavy new music. Mr. Parks was at Aunty's when I went down. He was there for dinner and spent most of the after noon telling about the estate, and from what Quint told me, his story is more like a page from an Arabian Nights' Entertainment than cold facts & figures pertaining to us. Mr. Parks has no doubt what ever about Dad. being the legal heir and seems to have no doubt about him proving his claim although he says there are seven others in England who think they have a claim and they are wealthy & influential some of them peers. He said a rough estimate of the extent of the capital fund would be two and a half million dollars and that the annual income was about £20,000 after the 35% succession dues were subtracted. He had a book showing how it was all invested and it seems theres a thousand acres or so of land