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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Louis Umfreville Wilkinson
December 3, 1917.
Dr. Louis U. Wilkinson, 10 Davis Place, Rockaway Beach, L. I.
Dear Ghost,
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law!
I feared when I saw your complimentary beginning that you had bad news for me.
I marked "Erudite and Intense" for December [issue of The International], but at the last moment the entire make-up was altered by a cataclysm, with the result that the paper is out a week late and it is full of misprints. I will return the thing to you, as you ask, though possibly, if you cannot use it, you might let me have it back.
The wicked Knopf has never sent me a copy of the "Chaste Man." I may say that I would like an inscribed copy.
Do you understand that all blessing flow from the Business Managers, and that you already have more than your share in being permitted to breathe the beautiful fresh air of Rockaway? I am in treaty with some people about the paper, and things may yet turn out decent. In the meanwhile, you and I are in the soup, and I am beginning to doubt whether we even make a good thickening.
Love is the law, love under will!
Yours ever,
Aleister Crowley
AC / RBG
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