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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Norman Mudd
Dec. 9/23 e.v.
Care Frater
93
Bar miracles I feel quite sure the Magical Current here will be exhausted after the 14th. The Desert is dreadfully cold, the very Bedouin are taking refuge in the villages. We are frozen stiff from sunset to 10 A.M.—no proper light or heat, making work very difficult. Alostrael [Leah Hirsig] evidently needs decided change. Her immediate need of bracing air and silence is satisfied. She now required a gentler climate and petty distractions.
Is the following scheme feasible? We return to Tunis as originally proposed about the 17th. (Dec.), she to take next boat and stay in Cefalů for a little; you and I go North by first boat; I stay in Paris and look about for a temporary H.Q. (sort of walking tour with Oxford crowd might work) you go straight to London and take up things there. Points of this are that 667 [Leah Hirsig] would need no money in Cefalů for a bit—her return would help to restore credit of course, for one thing. I could live in Paris for some weeks without cash beyond say 500 francs for pocket expenses; and Leah could follow North when adequate funds for wardrobe etc arrived. This would probably make things easier for Oxford and take as some may towards the physical . . .
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