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Correspondence from Montgomery Evans to Aleister Crowley
900 DeKalb Street, Norristown, Pennsylvania,
November 30, 1923.
I was peacefully ransacking Mr. W. C. Redway's shop for certain rather curious books this summer when, with apparent irrelevance, he disturbed my quest with the remark: "It is unfortunate that Aleister Crowley is not in London; you would like to meet him."
I naturally enquired as to the merits of the individual, and Mr. Redway produced Rosa Mundi, Rosa Coeli, and Rosa Inferni, which I at once incorporated in my library as the nucleus of a section devoted to this Aleister Crowley. I later obtained Jephthah and The Diary of a Drug Fiend; but the difficulty I experienced in obtaining these made me fear that the accumulation of other books might consume several years.
On my return to America I discovered that John Quinn's library was for sale. But my bids were so stupidly executed that I obtained only the vellum copy of The Sword of Song. But the suggestions on its back cover, and the similar suggestion in The Diary encourage me to address three questions to the author.
I. Is it still possible to obtain any of your books?
II. What are the requirements expressed in O. T. O. ? And do they also apply to the Abbey of Thelema?
III. Is there any likelihood of your being in Europe during the coming summer?
Yours,
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