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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to André Gide
[Undated: circa January 1924]
Mon chèr Maitre,
I have just had a little operation and spend most of my time in bed; but if you are still in Paris, I should like very much to see you Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday next week. On Wednesday afternoon I have another little operation.
I want to thank you very much for your essay on Wilde. I think it of the greatest value as a document, representing as it does the only view not Anglo-Saxon of the man. I am contemplating a short essay myself as soon as my health permits serious work and hope you will allow me to quote some of your obiter dicta. The English writers on Wilde have all been obsessed by the need to defend [illegible] him on themselves, thus naturally rendering their observation almost worthless.
I had hoped that you would have written me about my own attempts at prose. Is there any chance of introducing them to the French public.
I have not yet received any translations from Monsieur Aumont [Gerard Aumont], but am writing him by this mail asking when I may expect to receive his first drafts.
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