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Correspondence from Alma Hirsig to Jane Wolfe
Sidi Bou Said, Tunis.
Feb. 18/25 e.v.
Dear Janet,
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Your scrawl in yesterday—just as I had designs on you. Please do not follow any of the Ida de H. Crooke method in that beauty parlour—if you do, you'll find they will have to close down and you'll be without a job. Enough of this.
One of our worthy brothers is sending, by this post, a cheque for £30 to Murray for the purpose of dressing O.P.V. [Norman Mudd]. You must superintend the job. I enclose a list of what to get and where to get it and please stick to getting the best of anything you set out to get.
Write us (I've asked O.P.V. for facts but prefer them first hand) what you could live on reasonably comfortably so as to do the Hag [The Confessions of Aleister Crowley]. Not flushed yet but working up gradually. I have, of course, very strongly in mind that "dark horse"—as I did in Paris? I hate to think of irate landladies etc. Anyway, if an opportunity comes along, grab it.
Great haste to get this mail
Love from all.
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Alostrael
1 or if possible 2 good suits of dark gray material whip cord for choice. Don't get blue as that shows the dirt and dust too much. Cost about £16. 1 four-in-one Trench Coat "/35 to 2 [illegible]. 2 pairs of shoes. 4 pairs of socks. 3 ties. 1 Dozen collars. 1/2 dozen shirts with cuffs—soft fronts. studs and links. 1 pair gloves. 1/2 handkerchiefs.
I recommend [illegible] who has a place on the right hand side going towards the city end of Oxford St. or its continuation.
An eye shade. (Very important).
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