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Correspondence from James Branch Cabell to Aleister Crowley
November 10 1919
My dear Mr. Crowley:—
Your review of Jurgen is, to my biased way of thinking, wholly admirable and delightful: your authorities put my rogue to shame at his métier: and I shall look forward to The Equinox. Meanwhile I thank you with all imaginable heartiness.
Certainly you must send me one of your books. I have just returned from New York—your letter arriving but the day I left Dumbarton—and there Mr. Holt told me that McBride was to publish a book by you, and also showed me The Equinox review of Beyond Life. That too was fine, and quite new to me. I attempted to make off with the volume, but was foiled by Holt, who would not part with it.
Anyhow, if, as I understand it, you have not a Cream of the Jest, you must let me present you with a copy this spring when we re-print. The first lot was printed from type which has been taken down, and I possess to-day precisely one copy. Were matters otherwise I would be forwarding a book to-day. But we plan now to re-print this book in March, as McBride is completely out of it.
Yours faithfully,
James Branch Cabell
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