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Correspondence from Oliver H. Masters to Aleister Crowley
96, Millmark Grove, S. E. 14
August 19th, 1942.
An Open Letter to ALEISTER CROWLEY.
Dear Sir,
Your latest practical joke—the Exhibition of your Tarot as "by Lady Harris [Frieda Harris]" at the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours at 26 Conduit Street, is clever, and has been brilliantly successful, but the subject is serious. You could never have got your Tarot shewn without a stooge, and I suppose it had to possess some superficial glitter.
Everyone knows that the Tarot has been your special playground for over 40 years; anyhow, you have signed this pack, the image of your Personal Idea of the Cosmos, in dozens of secret ways. Oh yes! you have been careful that no one shall steal your work, for once! All the more reason for not exposing Lady Harris to the suspicion of trying to do so.
Come clean!
Yours faithfully,
O. H. MASTERS
P.S. If you wish to answer this, we promise to give your reply the same publicity as we are giving to this.
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