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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to John O'Hara Cosgrave
323, Dauphine Street. New Orleans, La.
Jan 26. [1917]
My dear Cosgrave.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
I'm sending you an article which Frank Crowninshield thought might suit you.
I do hope so; I have struck a bad patch, and have been starving for a month.
If you could spare me 50 dollars for the article, or as a personal loan which I can repay as my royalties on "Pirate Bridge"[1] come in, I shall take it very kindly. It would enable me to get on from here to some friends who have offered to put me up for a month or so.
I have written over 100,000 words fiction [Simon Iff] in the last month. The Metropolitan is interested in me and talks of taking up my work wholesale (this is confidential to you) but in the meanwhile I am up against it as I never was before.
Do let me have a line, and if humanly possible a check by return mail. If I can only get away from here I'll be all right; but in this place I get deeper in every hour.
Let me have good news of you, moreover. If all goes well, I'll turn up in April, and will hope to see you.
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours ever very truly.
Aleister Crowley.
The article should illustrate extremely well; you may think it need padding out; if so, fiat. A.C.
1—Crowley invented a new variation on the game Bridge, called "Pirate Bridge."
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