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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Gerald Yorke
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[Undated: circa May 1932]
C∴[are] F∴[rater]
93.
The £ has fallen: better see what = 290 R.M. on May 12.
Saw Ham. [Gerald Hamilton]: think he may have been bluffing a bit. Anyhow, I do wish I could have clear and full statements about these matters. I wrote W.[alker] a sort of apology, intended to provoke an answer. But I shall really be amazed if a promising business like this already in good shape was spoilt by a moment of panic on your part. However, I still hope.
Unless the telephone bill is too fearfully drastic, there is no obvious reason why we should enter the rapids before Monday.
"The People" is said to be publishing the Confessions of Montague Newton, who switched in the "Mr. A" case. Ham. will of course be roasted on both sides—he seems to have been at least 1/3 of the brains in the swindle. Please verify this and send me cuttings if pertinent.
Your express letter just in.
1. I will not use Hamilton in this Walker business in any way. He has no idea but to bring off a plain swindle, and I won't be party to it or countenance it in any shape or form. Your damned Eton politeness prevents you from taking a firm line in such matters. I don't in the least mind talking to Ham. as if I were a crook double-dyed-in-the-wool: I do it in order to learn. But I reported everything he said to Nick [Lieutenant Colonel John Carter] the day he said it.
He says he won't go to Bonn this week-end because your appeal to W[alker] for funds made it impossible for him to put over his stunt so soon afterwards. (You know he really thinks we are of his kidney. That enough?) But I suspect that he has gone to Petre (another Nancy boy) to try to raise funds to get to Bonn. Rem has apparently got wise, or failed somehow; and Field Roscoe have got very wise indeed.
Brief: I wouldn't trust H[amilton] to push any honest proposal: all he wants is a coup: 50-50 (if you can get your share) and a quick get-away. I vomit.
I repeat: only tolerated the animal in hope of helping England against Communism. Genug! (This is German for "enough".)
I am awaiting Walker's answer to my "provocative" letter in order to write one sufficiently provocative to make a personal interview imperative.
It is of course important that I should be able to bugger off to Brun (a good phrase, that!) at a moments' notice without arguments with [illegible]-collectors—an accursed vice.
Bill [Bertha Busch] is better—even comparatively quiet. Self ditto, but in need of Lubinky and a decent dentist.
Now do lose no time: get in touch with Sullivan, and work things up to the stage when everyone is so excited that telegrams and long distance calls are tedious.
Genug (again)!
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F∴[raternal]ly
666.
P.S. Do please read this letter, until you get what I mean.
666.
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