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Correspondence from James Branch Cabell to Aleister Crowley
November 26 1919
My dear Mr. Crowley:—
Yesterday I had the good luck and humiliation to find a Cream of the Jest upon a book store remnant counter. I remembered you, and resolved that you should be the possessor of a "first edition" even though it entailed the reckless outlay of forty-five cents. Accordingly the book goes forward to-day.
And last evening, as if in reward, The Equinox arrived, and I am enjoying it tremendously. A good part of it, of course, I do not understand: but even for these portions I can usually imagine some pleasurable and interesting significance, and arbitrarily assign that meaning thereto so far as I am concerned. Therefore I read with uniform delight, and am very grateful.
The Cream of the Jest, also, I would submit, ought to be read in much this frame of mind.
As for the real anagram of Sereda, it is a matter which various considerations prompt me to leave unveiled,—one of these considerations being that I am not certain. But I was delighted with your suggested Redeas, which I thought wonderfully ingenious and happy.
Yours faithfully,
James Branch Cabell
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