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Correspondence from George MacNie Cowie to Aleister Crowley
14 Glenisla Gardens, Edinburgh.
[Undated: circa 1914?]
Care Frater.
I shall leave by the 10 a.m. on Tuesday and should be due at 33 by 7 o'c or so coming from Kings Cross by Underground. I assume someone will be at the Studio to guide me to you if you are not there. I shall have had dinner on the train.
Are you not making a mistake about the Moratorium. I understood it expired on Nov 5 not Oct 4. I may be wrong. I heard nothing from Boleskine unto Friday morning and I then posted a letter stating the terms we were willing to accept as per your letter to me. I shall probably receive a reply in London and take your directions there.
Juppiter I hope will be more propitious. He hasn't been as regards the securities. The stockbroker sent back Riders thing as unsaleable, it not having a stock exchange quotation just as the Bank said before. It may be well to let it alone till the end of the half year till the interest comes along. In getting rid of these you see I am getting rid of a bit of my income. The point is that if universal ruin is coming, as you infer, they might as well be used up, now for the common good. You must just tell me what is right to do. To me things look precarious as regards every one's income from business in the near future. For the time being I have been lucky in one way. At the same time I have such long and irregular hours, that after working my mind up to a pitch of great steadiness, I am perceptibly deteriorating again, through irregularity of practice and great pre-occupation of mind. The once quiet room you saw me in is a pandemonium now with the constant chatter of a typewriter and an everlasting stream of people. Troops are quartered across the road, officers in the room below mine, and the whole of that side of the place is now demanded to quarter 200 men.
[The remainder of the letter is missing.]
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