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Correspondence from Wilfred Talbot Smith to Aleister Crowley
27 Feb 42
Dear Father
I cannot address you in any other way. Thanks for your letter. I feel that you can be assured your worried are about over as far as I am concerned in them that I understand.
I wrote a long letter to you some days ago but being in the nature of a self revision I won't bore you with the long rigmarole.
Briefly then your letter found me on my back after an uncomfortable but minor operation for hemeroids [sic]. . . . I have just about gone through a revolution inside and out. The 3 weeks rest relieved a strain of about break down proportions and the operation of about 8 years of discomfort.
I gained energy to do some thinking for the first time in years and your letter arrived to crown a whole series of interior exterior events which somehow all seem connected. I am going to quit the office and damn the consequences, I just refuse to undergo the strain any longer.
Be patient for a few months, give me a hand and if nothing happens, well hell.
Liber Oz is out but Germer [Karl Germer] will have given you all the news for I have brought him right up to date as to our status here. I must stop or it will get tedious like the other one, so for the present with filial affection let's end it.
Wilfred
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