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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Gerald Kelly
Cairo, Egypt.
22/10/02 [22 October 1902]
Dear Gerald.
I have just sent off a vast package of M.S.S. Book IV and last of Orpheus is giving me terrors. How very much your writing is improved, much more manly (loathsome word though) which is just what I wanted to see. I thought perhaps a little adversity——
I come via Marseilles to Paris. Can't say when as I am waiting for cash and to see Pyramids etc, while I am here dictating the story of my journey to a stenographer. Result abject as literature. I will wire from Marseilles.
I have business also with the chiefs of the Order of which I have recently heard so much and seen so little. But I do not wish my presence in Paris known till the Hour of Triumph, or some how like that: so I will accept your kindness in the same spirit in which I have always received your insults and drive straight off to Montparnasse. I know the Boulevard M.P., not your street though. I am not likely to go to England until certain arrangements are made—tell you what later. As you say, there is lots to do. Get and cram up Michelet "Histoire des Templiers".
Ever.
Aleister Crowley.
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