Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Gerald Yorke

1a Würtzburgerstrasse

Berlin

Feb 3 [1931]

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      [Karl Germer] brought me your note this A.M.

Thanks for Marie's [Maria de Miramar] address. I will inform my lawyer. Your ignorance in supposing that I would want you to negotiate is really too exorbitant!

The Foreman [N. J. N. Foreman] story is this.

He came to me this summer and said "I'm going away for my holiday next week." I said; "Good! I suppose you couldn't pay me that £2 you have owed me for so long?" He than said that the full enjoyment of his holiday was threatened "for lack of £5." I said: "The only way out of it I can see is to call it £7." and handed him a cheque for £5 on the spot. He appeared very grateful and went off.

When I was hurting for money to go to Lisbon I asked him (at the [illegible]) for the £7. He said he had not got it at the moment, but was sending surplus books to Watkins for sale, and I could rely on his sending the money within one week.

From that day to this I have not had one word from him. He has not dared to deny the debt, which would be the natural reply to a wrong demand. But you know well how [illegible] he is on some points. However, his conduct in this matter baffles me utterly.

I have written him a letter full of friendship and sympathy with no reference to the debt; why you should suppose this "unthelemic" I cannot imagine.

About this you write "I was able to prove to him on the story which he told me that he does not owe you the money." Are your pronouns mixed? Or are you a "hyper-modern" logician?

[Illegible] I'd like to have his side of the tale.

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