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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Gerald Yorke
15 Jan [1932]
C∴[are] F∴[rater]
93.
Your recent letters cheer me. Though Bill [Bertha Busch] has been ill in bed almost all day since Xmas, and is only just getting over the shock of Germer's [Karl Germer] letter.
I send you a copy (confidential) with notes: useful for you to know the diathesis which leads to the Left Hand Path. But I still hope to save him.
My asthma is pretty bad. Practically every day it takes me hours to clear up my breathing and by that time I am mostly too fagged out to do much. Nerves.
Its decent of you to bother so much about us. Hamilton [Gerald Hamilton] says he could get his Bank to discount a promissory note at 6 months, provided the drawer could prove his solvency. If you could do this it would give us all 6 months to turn round in under good conditions. The plan is for R.M. 1000 for January and new clothes for Bill. R.M. 800 a month for 5 months reserve for emergencies R.M. 2000. Total R.M. 7000 or roughly £500. On this we can make a campaign really well—enough to go out to meet people.
Trying to get Lilian Harvey to commission a film. I have an A.1. idea for her.
Ullstein should answer by Monday next. Had a v[ery] bad morning trying to breathe—too exhausted to write properly. So excuse.
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F∴[raternal]ly
666.
[Bill [Bertha Busch] adds] Dear boy—
You'll be glad to hear how nice A.C. was when I was ill. He even did the cooking—All this somehow seems quite different to what I heard before. I am getting quite conceited. To think that he does all this things for my sake—but now he is having every day his asthma—so bad that I get really frightened. Can no make plans—as I never know how long his attacks will last—and I cannot leave him alone. It is rather depressing to sit in the house and watch him—trying to get his breath—I do hope after rain follows sunshine—I shall not leave the ship—I'll try to get it going full steam in the high sea.
Love your
Mother Bill.
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