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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Charles Stansfeld Jones
[Undated: circa November 1936]
C∴[are] F∴[rater]
93.
I am afraid that I never had any doubt, since you went in the U.B. [Universal Brotherhood] swindle, that the box of books was being held in expectation of my death.[1]
I have looked up the affair; everything confirms this.
You had certainly embezzled the proceeds of sales of stock for years: so why try to find fantastic explanations of the obvious?
93 93/93.
Fraternally,
O.S.V. 6º=5o
1—Crowley is referring to a box of rare books and manuscripts he had brought with him to America in 1914. The box subsequently went missing while in Jones' charge and Crowley thought that Jones had stolen the books. See "Keeping the Faith" for a detailed account.
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