|
Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to H.B.M. Vice-Consul, Brussels, Belgium
July 22, '29 e.v.
Sir,
I am informed that you are making enquiries as to the source of my income.
I should hardly believe this, were I not so accustomed to ineptitude.
Like other authors, I derive income from the sale of my work; and like other gentlemen, from inheritance.
But I confess that I do not see in what way this matter can possibly interest you; and I see still less why the question should be used to harry the lady [Maria de Miramar] to whom I have the honour to be engaged.
Nor can I conceive that it is any part of the duty of my Consul to lend himself, inadvertently or otherwise, to further the revenge of baffled blackmailers.
I have [illegible].
I hope then for you official assurance that this story about you is wholly invented, before the whole matter becomes public.
H.B.M. Vice-Consul Brussels Belgium
|