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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Gerald Yorke
Karlsruherstrasse 2. Berlin-Halensee.
Oct 22 '31.
My dear Yorke,
I'm very glad that you have been able to see for yourself how I have been placed. I came to Berlin last October because Karl Germer had promised me £2000 to reconstruct the Mandrake [Mandrake Press], and I had to be on the spot. But his sadistic mania postponed this and kept me utterly penniless so that every penny he advanced was taken up by urgent necessities. He thwarted every effort I made to get to Reinhardt and other men with whom I might have done business. Finally he gambled all away. Even if I had had money, I could not have sent it to Marie [Maria de Miramar], who stubbornly refused to answer letters, or to communicate when Regardie [Israel Regardie] begged her to do so. I was never sure of her address either.
As soon as possible I shall of course pay up all monies expended for her support by the County Councils. By the way I have had no demand from them. I may also mention that my information was that she was being kept by one or more men.
I am proposing to divorce her as soon as it becomes practicable; and I shall be prepared to pay her passage back to her father in Nicaragua, or to set her up in Paris—where formerly she earned her living well enough by painting and embroidery—paying her an adequate allowance until she is on her feet again.
But of course all this needs money—and I can literally do nothing until my present negotiations are completed.
Yours sincerely,
Aleister Crowley.
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