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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Blanche Conn
Tunisia Palace Hotel, Tunis
Oct. 4, 1923. e.v.
My dear Blanche Conn,
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
I assume that the 3333 francs received a few days ago comes from you. It pulled us through. For all that I have to enclose a copy of a letter I am writing to Leah's [Leah Hirsig] sister (Mrs. Bliss [Alma Hirsig], 156 East 49 Street?—last address known). I haven't the slightest idea what your circumstances are and I have been careful not to discuss this matter with Leah. I assure her that somehow or other I will keep her from going under. Her courage is positively infernal. She is intensely happy in her love and her work—it is the actual physical strain which has begun to break her down. I have myself been very ill all the year, really from this cause. I have now got a man, in fact more than one, to devote themselves to straightening out our affairs and all that is necessary is to arrange for Leah to be nursed, fed up etc., till he health comes back and the money comes in, when we shall be able to pay back the people who have helped us through. Our assets are of course very huge indeed. I should be worth not far short of a million dollars at this moment if it were not for the ghastly persecution which the envious have kept up so long.
If you can spare any more, please cable it as before to Norman Mudd, Credit Lyonnais, Tunis.
Love is the law, love under will.
P.S. At this moment of writing it is clear from recent events that Mussolini is coming smash and a big one. I have been expecting it of course for a year. His action in expelling me from Italy was typical of the arbitrary and unjust tyranny of the man. The point is that his fall may mean a Number One size revolution and I might at any moment need funds to get Sister Cypris [Ninette Shumway] and the children out of the murder zone.
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