Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Speldridge

Camber Rye

Sussex.

[Undated: circa 21 July 1937]

C∴[are] F∴[rater]

93.

Thanks to you and Fitzgerald [Edward Noel Fitzgerald] I am here—finding out so far how very sick I am. There is a dim hope of extending the week, if I can get in touch with Louis Fox, who has a cottage at Ashburnham. I need at least a month to take the rheumatism out—and bumper weather at that.

     last night +  P  +  with  just gone [illegible] again ought to put the lid on—or take it off. I wonder if you'll see Regina [?] after all (I want them on my honeymoon).

There is one thing you would do if you could, before you either go or stay as the case may be.

Tom Brown of Conduit Street has two suits for me. I have only paid for one, and he won't do a thing till the balance—about 13 guineas, I think—is paid. I'm damnably hot in these Irish tweeds, and they don't look too well in London in August either. So if you can whisper in his ear, please do.

I have asked Chellew [Henry Chellew] to come down here for a day or two, and hope we shall be able to make some really sound plans. He is a shrewd, sensible bloke: sees my real assets; the fact that I'm not a financial success and don't want to be; the fact that I've gone on working in utter disregard of circumstance.

Now that the hour has struck at last, and that I am really through the ordeals, there ought to be a clear current.

The general idea is to begin with U.S.A. and bring the Law back here with the prestige of success over there.

I shall consult the Yi about all this during the week. I am rather too collapsed for a day or so.

Best of all to you and the Angel Child.

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