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Correspondence from Norman Mudd's Father to Norman Mudd
[EXTRACT]
[circa October 1924]
Your letter and enclosure [An Open Letter to Lord Beaverbrook] reached us last evening and both mother and I are deeply concerned and very despondent about the whole affair. We hope you are quite sure of your facts, for the events referred to seem to relate to the period of your absence from this country when you were thousands of miles away from your hero [Crowley] and therefore not fully cognizant of his doings. If you are relying mainly on his word, I am afraid you are trusting on a very broken reed. You know we never liked him and have not the slightest sympathy with his cause. We have always looked on him as your evil genius right from your Cambridge days, and are terribly afraid that he will blight your whole life.
As to our future, it cannot, under the most favourable circumstances, be very extensive and therefore the limit cannot be 'too distant'. We hate to plead poverty and therefore refrain from harrowing your feelings, but I do not think you should ask us to assist in the slightest degree a hero and a cause which we have not the slightest sympathy with. Moreover, we feel that time, money and effort are all thrown away in bolstering up or trying to whitewash this discreditable affair. Mother is deeply grieved and cannot see a solitary glimmer in this darkness—she sends the enclosed for your very own sake. . . .
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