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Correspondence from George MacNie Cowie to Aleister Crowley
14 Glenisla Gardens, Edinburgh.
[Undated: circa 1915?]
[Partial letter only.]
Financial Intelligence. I found my balance down to £2.17.6 and I'm enclosing only half the promised £10, the other half further on in the month. But I have had the quarters cheque for Boleskine. It's a pity to blue it, so after careful consideration, I put my pride in my pocket and asked W and W [Williamson & Watt] to suggest that perhaps Mrs Brook might care to pay the £76 odd of repairs, we in return reducing the rent by an equal amount (allowing for interest) spread over the next 3 years. If this comes off it will save money that is of more importance at the present juncture, for you, than a slightly reduced income later on. There's no reply, as yet, so I don't know.
The M.M. Lodge should relieve me of a good deal of expenditure bye and bye, and perhaps take over all the charges on stored and popped property even. So there will be fewer necessary deductions from what is really your own private income. I've no report that the rival ladies are clawing each other's hair out over who is to get Boleskine.
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