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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Jane Wolfe
c/o Dennes & Co. London.
January 11, 1936.
Dear Estai,
93.
Aggravatingly idiotic as your letters always were, their cheerfulness made them welcome.
The clarity and sanity of your plain statements of December 29 is exceptionally refreshing.
Naturally I accept your statement.
But, even had I not any account from Max [Max Schneider], my imagination would have told me that Virginia had sung a very different song. Cannot you imagine the reaction of a half demented woman, hurt both in vanity and pocket by your refusal of her offer?
You are to blame. You knew the Cefalù rule of frankness. You ought to have anticipated what Virginia would do, and told Max at the time the facts of the case.
Of course, it is also Max's fault for accepting an ex parte statement from Virginia. But men are usually loath to question the stories told them by the women they are sleeping with at the moment.
In any case these tornados in tea-cups are ridiculous and it is utterly undignified to be mixed up in them, and downright rotten to allow them to side-track the G.W. [Great Work].
Best of love.
93 93/93.
Fraternally,
666.
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