Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to James Branch Cabell

 

     

 

 

17th Sept. '22

 

 

c/o English Review

18 Bedford Square

London, W.C.

 

 

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

 

I sent you a copy of the Book of the Law some months ago.

     

The U.S. Customs passed it free and then it returned mysteriously to me.

     

I had some very interesting conferences with (H.L.) Mencken [H.L. Mencken]. He told me that you had recently published a book. . . .

     

I have been partly busy and partly ill, so that my proposed essay on you (about which Mencken is very enthusiastic). . . .

     

In my youth I was rather keen on heraldry. My own family is the Querouaille or Kerval of Brittany.

     

We are eagerly awaiting your promised contribution.

 

AC.

 

 

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