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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Louis Umfreville Wilkinson
Louis Wilkinson Grove Heart Ripley Surrey
8 Dec 1940
The Gardens Middle Warberry Road Torquay
Dear Louis
Delighted to get yours. Got rid of my last nurse—a "Plymouth Sister" who had never heard of a glacier; and, when I tried to explain, said, "We call them refridgerators down here". Free education ahoy! So I'm left with a clacking old char, a Mrs. Martin, of whom it is written:
There was an old woman named Martin Who said: "No I never take part in The pleasures of whoring I find it too boring I get plenty of fun out of fartin' ".
I saw an advertisement of one of your London lectures. I wish you were telling the world how to rebuild itself on the basis of the Law of Thelema. Perhaps you will when the time comes. All these troubles have come because quick communication and transport have squeezed the world together, and so destroyed the virtue of the parochial sanctions of the traditional custom and religion. Hence a new principle is imperative: one which has no regional or cultural limitations, still less depends on local frauds and fables.
I feel that I shall be back in or near London soon. I weary of the Unburied Dead. "Oh solitude, where" etc.
Love.
Yours
Aleister
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