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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Gerald Yorke
55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris, VII
January 9th, 1929.
Care Frater:
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Your letter of the 8th instant arrived just after I had dictated a rather anxious letter regarding your silence.
I will take on this apartment for one more month.
The bank says that no money at all has come in since the £70, most of which, as you know, had to be used at once to pay back debts. I have not really had any salary for four weeks.
I am doing everything possible to economize. I expect Madame de Miramar [Maria de Miramar] is going into the country for a few days, anyhow, so that again will reduce expenses in a sort of way.
I will take the flat for one more month, hoping that the situation will be altered by the end of that time.
Really, I could do nothing to find a studio. The weather has been perfectly impossible, and I have been practically confined to the house.
I do not see the sense in your cancelling an appeal already made. As you see, it only means that you must send it out again, and people will have the idea that our policy vacillates.
Your letter regarding Lecram [Paris publishers] has not yet turned up. You acknowledge only my letter of the 7th, but I wrote you also on the 6th.
As the £10 did not arrive on Monday, we are quite penniless, and I suppose I shall have to arrange to cash a post-dated cheque. There are some outstanding accounts of between 1,500 and 3,000 francs. If you cable £40 immediately on receiving this we should be able to carry on at least till your visit, at which time we can talk things over more adequately than is possible in letters.
Please send me a duplicate of your letter re Lecram.
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours fraternally,
666.
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