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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Nancy Cunard
Aston Clinton, Bucks.
July 22, 44 E.V.
My dear Nancy,
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
How delightful to get a letter—and such a letter!—from you, who have always played so great a part in the life of my imagination!
Many thanks for the war-poem; so fine in rhythm and expression, with such powers to make one visualize as well as experience your reaction. I fire one back at you [La Gauloise]—a very much similar affair, I fear. But it may yet replace the Marseillaise which is a bit shop-soiled.
Your apprehensions as to the journey from your centre of civilization (I always call it [Oxford] Buchmansville!) and this forgotten outpost of Empire are ill-founded. It is not an alternate toiling through virgin jungle and over pack-ice. There is a direct 'bus service Oxford-Aylesbury. There you touch terra firma only to leap into a 301 which drops you at the very door of the inn some 10-15 minutes later. Telephone Aston Clinton 4 any morning about 10 and say you are coming to lunch. Wednesday, Friday or Saturday I am almost certainly free. Drink here is fairly accessible—gin, beer, etc—H and B "Royal Vat" 20 v.p.
Louis [Louis Wilkinson] was here for a week—we had an A.1. time: lots of fun with the "Fore and Aft" Spelling Bee.
Give my love to dear Norman [Douglas]—he too has had a great and glorious life. How few of us there are, true adventurers of the Spirit!
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours as ever, adorable Nancy,
A.C.
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