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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Charles Stansfeld Jones
October 27, 1920.
My beloved Son:
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law!
I have your letter of September 27th, and hasten to reply to the purely business details. This College has acquired the whole of the London stock and I trust that it will not act as our business rival.
In order to work harmoniously it is absolutely essential for us to compare our lists. I enclose you a copy of mine. Have you a large excess of Equinox I, 9? Our deficiency (lacking of) may be merely a misprint; or the bulk of that edition may be still with the printer, in which case we must try and get it.
We are going to try and make a market in England for our end of the stock. This will not interfere with you at all, because the prices will be held up so that no one will want to take any of it over to America.
We shall make a special effort to sell the Rodin [Rodin in Rime] books en bloc. If this can be done we shall have capital available to help you out with the publicity end of your work. In particular I am very anxious to make an appropriation which would permit you to lecture all round the States.
I wish you would arrange to enquire of Hanson [William Hanson] as to what he has done with that Equinox III, 2. We might find that he is by this time ready to take some steps which would be mutually satisfactory.
Please lose no time in letting me have a detailed inventory of the books which are with you.
Love is the law, love under will!
Thy Father
P.S. The few odd copies will be kept separate from this stock and dealt with as rariora, and the value of this stock, according to the prices published in Equinox III, 1, amounts to $72,818.00. I suggest that you should enter into negotiations with prominent firms in America, such as Brentano's or Scribner's, as to whether they will not undertake to handle the entire stock in a properly businesslike way. The trouble with these firms usually is that the manager of the occult department is hostile. You should make a point of seeing principals, if possible.
I suggest that the stock be divided definitely into two portions. The first, books of occult interest: the second, books of poetic interest—these sections to be handled by quite different people. Mitchell Kennerly might undertake the disposal of the poetic section.
I'll write the other things—fully—in a day or two at the moment I'm clamouring de profundis. [illegible], I hope: may he bring good news of you.
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