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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Wilfred Merton
[on the stationary of The Equinox]
126 Victoria St. S.W.
29 - 6 - 10 [29 June 1910]
Dear Merton,
V.B.N. [Victor B. Neuburg] can't understand your letter, and is too furious to trust himself to write to you, so asks me to step into the breach. He can only excuse you, he says, on the ground that your head has been turned by academic success!
I must confess I share his perplexity. You are bound in honour as well as in law to publish Neuburg's new book, and I can't conceive you trying to evade the obligation, unless a certain Oriental Publisher is as contagious as he looks!
Neuburg went to Jacobi [Chiswick Press] for an estimate at your own suggestion he says. Personally, I can't see why Ballantyne [publishers] should not serve, or Turnbull & Spears [publishers]. The latter's estimate would (I judge) not exceed 60% of Jacobi's.
But for God's sake come round and pacify the B.P.
Yours as ever,
Aleister Crowley.
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