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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Norman Mudd
Collegium ad Spiritum Sanctum, Cefalù, Sicily
Mar. 27, 1923 e.v.
Care Frater,
93.
Your letter of Feb. 28 puts me in all kinds of bewilderment. I understood from your telegram of Mar. 7 that your ship called at Gibraltar. With regard to your paragraphs B. and C., why go from Southampton to Dover? Southampton to Havre or St. Male should be much quicker. The cross country journey in England is awful. I have tried it.
I address this letter as advised in your Par. D. (also duplicate to Gibraltar) as to Par. E., as I said in Letter No. 2, I think it is better to postpone relations with people in England till August.
With regard to cash—no harm is done by failure to get it at once as things have turned out. I have enough to make necessary arrangements to receive you. There seems a great muddle about letters but it is really a marvel that any have arrived at all!
I made an excuse for writing to Doughty [James Doughty], with the idea of testing his psychology in various ways. In the course of the letter I asked him to visit us here. But leave him alone till later. Be very careful, whomever you see or hear, not to let yourself be influenced. We are in for an A1 Magical scrap, and I shall be anxious all the time till I see you here in the flesh.
93 93/93
Yours fraternally,
The Beast 666
P.S. It seems that I have Mediterranean Fever, which is a perfectly bloody thing. It has to run its course which is long and debilitating.* No treatment affects it. I have had about six weeks of it and the average duration is three months. It does not prevent one's working in the ordinary way but one can't work steadily or at high pressure. Rather an ideal condition for our preliminary conversations!
* Even when no complications arise. So far I have been fortunate in that respect.
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