Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Louis Umfreville Wilkinson

 

     

 

Georgian House,

Bury Street,

St. James', S.W.

 

27 June 1929

 

 

Dear H.G.

 

How would you know that I should have read Mr. Amberthwaite [A novel by Louis Marlow/Wilkinson] and Two made their bed when no kind friend sends me copies? I haven’t had money to spare to buy a book since about 1900!

     

But times change. I am going for John Bull for criminal libel.

     

And I think I’ve got publishers—live ones. Would you undertake to edit my Autohagiography [The Confessions of Aleister Crowley]? Let me know by return, and I’ll mention your name. It might be a good thing, and I’d rather have you than another.

     

Now I go back into the 1st line trenches.

 

Yours,

 

Aleister Crowley

President of the League of Virtue.

 

 

Louis Wilkinson Esq.

c/o Llewelyn Powys Esq.

The White Nose

Owernyne

Dorchester

 

 

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