Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Louis Umfreville Wilkinson

 

     

 

 

[on Liber OZ stationary]

 

 

93 Jermyn St

S.W.1

WHI: 9331

 

 

May 31 [1943]

 

 

Dear Louis

 

93.

 

Life in London is a bore

When I don't see you no more.

Life in London ain't no catch

When your visit—eggs don't hatch

Life in London gets my goat

When I miss you—and you know't.

 

This is the sort of thing I am reduced to when I've had no intelligent companionship for so long. What is it that you, notably urban as urbane, stick to the hedges and ditches, while I, Lover No 1 of the G.[reat] W.[ide] O.[pen] Spaces, can't bear to be more than one rod, pole, or perch from Piccadilly Circus?

     

Whatever it is that's wrong, I shall prove that it's All Your Fault!

     

Even a driblet of epistolatry correspondence every week or so would encourage me to carry on!

 

93     93/93.

 

Yours ever,

 

Aleister.

 

 

Louis Wilkinson Esq

c/o Dr. O'Neill

9 Duke's Avenue

Chiswick

W.4.

 

 

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