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Correspondence from Wilfred Talbot Smith to Aleister Crowley
7 Mar 39
Care Frater 666
93
. . . I enclosed newspaper cuttings which are self-explanatory. In addition, however, I may tell you we are still carrying on. We planned to give a 45 minute come-back over the radio. We had the transcription cut, but the night before—Friday March 3—a representative from the school called on us, and pleaded with us not to let it go over the air that the mater was dying down. He also informed us that the Hearst press had got wind of our intention, had type set up and gruesome pictures ready to take another smack at us in The Saturday morning edition. 'Love-cult sex orgies—immoral household—no married person to chaperone (Ages 47, 53, 63, 65) etc, etc. And that the School Board could stop them if we would uphold the attack on the newspapers. So finally we bought back the records and the program was cancelled.
We have all had quite a hectic time. Police, newspaper men, etc. to say nothing of being shunned by 95% of our fellow-workers, as if one were a leper. Our friends have been loyal.
Hope shortly to send money for Little Essays [Little Essays Toward Truth]. Quite a job to get it, and now 20 dollars was spent to get the transcriptions back. Dead tired, worn out, weary. I certainly would like a change from the fierce mechanised drive at the office of the last 18 months.
By the way, did you know that the basic physical frequency of the note A, is 426.667. It struck me as an interesting number.
. . . There is one little matter that I do not understand in respect to the recent notoriety: why O.T.O. and Aleister Crowley were not mentioned.
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Fraternally.
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