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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Gerald Yorke
June 5 [1932]
C∴[are] F∴[rater]
93.
Yours of no date—as usual. Oh hell! but mailed June 3 11.15 a.m.
Bill [Bertha Busch] must not come back until you have been nailed to the barn door. As long as she is in London, I can say that negotiations are proceeding, and all is well. If she returned without success, it would precipitate disaster.
And you think that you could wiggle out of your mess more easily if Bill were off your doorstep. But it was one of the vilest of the vile letters you have written recently that made her decide to go to London. You and you alone are responsible for all the trouble; and the worst idiocy is that it all costs twice the money. If you had acted straightly and simply and in a business-like way throughout, we should have pulled things off long ago. It was your negligence—looking after the Mandrake [Mandrake Press], and your scuttling off to Africa as soon as things looked groggy there, that sent us West.
Personally I'm not interested in vague possibilities of raising cash from people whom I personally approached before without success. I am interested in getting you to toe the line. I expect to hear from the [illegible] in Stockholm by Thursday at the latest. I do not think you are particularly expert in avoiding "giving pain to other people". What really bust your family is that you always allowed them to despise you. If you were to turn over a new leaf and get in a loyal, honourable, and courageous way, they would thank me for having kicked you into it..
93 93/93
F∴[raternal]ly
666.
P.S. Please read your Record through carefully: read every word! 666.
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