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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Wilfred Merton
Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth Letters and Telegrams: Boleskine Foyers is sufficient address Parcels and Goods: Inverfarigaig Pier, Loch Ness
[Undated: circa May 1909]
My dear Schmeichen [Wilfred Merton],
I have been doing what I can to persuade N. [Victor B. Neuburg] to fall in with his people's views. But they seem a sloppy, mean, muddle-brained, sentimental, callous crew and they want him to go on muddling and thereby missing his career. My patience with them is not exhausted, but merely tired from boredom.
N. will be better in The Quarter than in their Sodden Ghetto.
I am sorry you cannot go on with your Palamede [Sir Palamedes]. I thought it was settled. I don't want the cash; your promise is quite good enough; you need only [illegible] up the difference in the event of failure. Thanks all the same—if you won't—for the good wishes.
By the way, that's what's the matter with Neuburg. Everybody wishes him well; but I seem to be the only person who will really go to the trouble and expense over him. I know you have lent him cash, but you might do something else. Couldn't you ask him to stay with you in the country for a bit? It would keep him in England, and he would be able to have his pittance while he was there. This house is let for the summer, or he could live here.
Let us know as soon as you become accessible again.
Yours,
Aleister Crowley.
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