[AGL] more Fletcherizing

[Fontaine Maverick]

Thank you so much for all your words, Mike. I recall Sidney Brammer telling 
me that Billy Lee had called before he died and telling her he had some 
money "socked away" - as it turned out, there was about $800 in a sock in a 
drawer for her.
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From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com>
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Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 9:50 AM
Subject: [AGL] more Fletcherizing



> pretty good friend with Billy Lee Bramer too but only in last

> few years of his life. i had never spoken with him in the

> glory days in the 60s. i only really met him at Cissy Alex's

> where i also met Arthur Vance. <-very funny guy

>

> Billy Lee and his last girlfriend lived for a time upstairs

> in the house Fletcher and Libby were renting on W. 28th

> street. Their last domicile before Billy Lee OD'ed was a

> small frame house opposite the Federal bldg not yet torn

> down where, as she told me, they freaked out at being

> under surveillance. Billy Lee turned out to be a fantastic

> conversationalist, he knew everybody from everywhere

> what they had done and written and he never NEVER

> spoke about his personal problems which were legion.

> This was on Friday nights at Fletcher's first Raw Deal.

> He once offered to trade his portable cassette tape recorder

> for my roommate.

>

> when Billy Lee died, Dorothy went to the Austin police

> to see if an autopsy might be done on him. the cops

> were dismissive of such pointless probing. Pointing at

> some of the mug shots on the wall, the detective said

> we have all his friends here [recounted by Dorothy at

> Billy Lee's wake at Dorothy's rent house on Possum

> Trot road]. Billy Lee died of a stroke after he had

> shot up some speed and was lying on his bed. The last

> girlfriend told me (i forget her name) that Billy Lee told

> her he thought he had had a few mini-strokes that year.

>

> Irish doctor's name was Dr. Jack and married

> Sidney Scott's roommate and went to work

> in construction. Bill Pratt says he is in touch with

> him.