I will also always be grateful to him for all his help in allowing me to obtain extremely rare, personal historical irreplaceable one of a kind items. Jimmy was also very close to Vernon as well as other family members. During that four year period after Elvis' passing around late 1977-1982 before Graceland opened its doors to the public so many historical, private and personal family items from Elvis' Graceland, Hillcrest and Monovale homes belonging to Elvis over his lifetime were sold to Jimmy from Elvis' close family and friends, by the time Graceland realised what was happening it was just too late, so many precious items were gone. Im just so grateful that i now own a large amount of them.
Very many people in that early period just did not think that there would be that much interest in Elvis after a year or two of his death, How very, very wrong they were.
Many years ago in one of the many letters Jimmy wrote to me, Jimmy wrote.........."There's a time for every season and so i pass the baton to you Daniel." ...................I felt extremely humbled by these words.
