Correspondence from Lieutenant Colonel John Carter to Gerald Yorke

3rd March, 1931.

Dear Yorke,

Many thanks for your note on the 1st March. I enclose you £2:-:- to help Regardi [Israel Regardie] with his T.S. fees. I can send you a little more if that is not enough. Would you mind, as a matter of routine, just signing any name on the enclosed receipt and sending it back to me.

As regards Mrs. A.C. [Maria de Miramar] she wrote a letter to Scotland House, omitting to put my name on it, dated 28th February as follows:—

"Nobody is responsible of my suicide only Aleister Crowley—Please don't enquire I will not noise in the newspaper. Marie Crowley [Maria de Miramar]."

It is difficult to know whether this woman means it seriously or not. It is not a matter for the police; suicide only becomes an offence if you attempt it and do not succeed!! If you do see the lady and she has not done away with herself, you might pat her on the back and tell her that when life looks gloomiest it very often turns round the corner and looks bright again.

Also, it is not the slightest good getting in touch with me, I cannot do anything for her and, indeed I do not feel that I have any moral obligation to do so. I expect she has got rather a Latin temperament.

Yours sincerely.

AC Carter.

Gerald Yorke, Esq.

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