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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Raymond Radclyffe
50 rue Vavin, Paris VIe
Apr 18, 1924 e.v.
My dear Radclyffe.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
A thousand thanks! I am now convalescent, though quite unable to work. I am hoping to get two months' convalescence. Don't know at present where to go, or how to manage it, but a way will doubtless be found.
You err in supposing you have nothing of Vol. II, which consists of 10 numbers of Stainless Silence. I am not sure that you have not Vol. IV as well!! Only No. 1 of Vol. III was ever issued. The second was printed, but exists only in proofs as far as I know. The publication broke down owing to the combined craziness and rascality of a publisher in Detroit.
As to the end of your last question—if there were any missing volumes, and I had them there would be nothing to pay.
I am hoping to get to England soon. Do you know I have a vague feeling that I need re-building on honest food. (I've had damned little, honest or dishonest, for 3 months. But is there any honest food in England now, or is it all Americanized? I shall write a new parable of the Prodigal Son who couldn't stand the good canned sheer at his father's and went off to keep his own prigs.
"I want to be a farmer And with the milkmaids swell".
You see, I am getting better.
I hope Mrs. Radclyffe is flourishing as I see you are.
Love is the law, love under will.
Hoping to see you after not so long.
Yours ever
Aleister Crowley
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