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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Wilfred Talbot Smith
[On the paper of The Queens Hotel. Leicester Square.]
19 July [1933]
C∴F∴
93
Your attitude about money is all wrong. When you think in terms of 2nd class, you insult the Fluidity of Wealth, and dry up the sources. Also, it's easy to economize on an adequate estimate; if you try to do things on a shoestring it means that unforeseen expenses, which always turn up, wreck your whole plan.
Besides I want to make contacts on the voyage itself, and arrive in L.A. with a lot of prestige. So set your target at 1000 dollars. Mrs. Dinsmore has probably got this tucked away somewhere. Represent it as a loan to me personally, for which I'll let her in on the ground floor. Represent it as a colossal and almost incredible piece of luck to have the unique chance etc etc.
I'm working press methods here, and may be able to do great things; but I must arrive in L.A. as a Star. V[ery] busy with articles, libel actions etc etc. (My dates depend very much on what happens in these. I can't leave London till they're over.)
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F∴[raternal]ly
666
Love to you all.
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