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Correspondence from John Quinn to Aleister Crowley
April 21, 1915.
Dear Mr. Crowley:
Referring to the manuscripts which were delivered on Saturday, I hope you got them all right. Last week was a very bad week with me. I was about as near “all in”, as the phrase is, as a man can be. When I am tired I perhaps overdo the letter-writing and that is why my letter to you regarding the books and manuscripts was longer than it perhaps should have been. But I felt that I had delayed writing you too long, and I was dreadfully tired when I wrote it. If there were any expressions in my letter that were inconsiderate please overlook them and charge it to my being overdriven and tired. I want you to take this as sincerely as I write it.
If you don’t think that the price that I allowed for the three manuscripts which I retained is fair, don’t hesitate to let me know and I will send you back any one of them that you want and keep only two for the amount that I named.
If there are one or two others of the vellum books that you wish to send down to me together with the two that I named on approval subject to a fair offer, I shall be glad to look at them.
Yours very truly,
John Quinn
Aleister Crowley, Esq., 40 West 36th Street, New York City.
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