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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Isidore Kerman
S.W.1.
[April 5 1943]
My dear Kerman,
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
£250.
We don't want to go to a professional lender if we can help it.
Wouldn't you do it yourself on the security of the pictures themselves?
There are 79; it works out at £3.3.4 per picture to the nearest 1/4?
The only condition on our side would be that the Chiswick Press should have the custody of them while actually in process of collotype reproduction if necessary—this only applies to 4 or 5 of them—and that they should be stored in a "safe" place (By this Lady Harris [Frieda Harris] means outside London.) and accessible if required for public exhibition with your approval.
I do not like to write you about interest, since you have been so generous to me three times of late, but of course this is a more important sum. So may I suggest 10% p.a.? I would give the permanent guarantee of the O.T.O. for these payments. For term, I suggest 3 years, leaving us time to accumulate the principal for repayment, either from the sale of the book or our own resources.
In case of a forced sale, I know a sure buyer at that price or more; but I cannot go to him direct for the loan for private reasons.
I do hope that you will see your way to help me in this, a small matter to you, but to me representing the work of over 44 years.
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours sincerely,
Aleister Crowley.
P.S. I will telephone you on Thursday morning, unless you have the kind thought of making me happy still earlier. A.C.
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