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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Nancy Cunard
Aston Clinton, Bucks.
Aug 10 [1944]
My very dear but very Oy Nancy!
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
I had really hoped to see you here today; alas! woe's me! Not a button, or feather, or mark. Well, any day after today bar Tuesday, and "either Thursday or Friday" as usual, the coast will be perfectly clear.
Would you make a small but urgent enquiry for me—but maybe you know the answer? In Buchmansville [Oxford] are branches of one or two tailors whose G.H.Q. are Saville Row, or one of those streets. If so, please let me know. I've got some perfectly lovely material for a suit, and I want a bloke to make it up for me. It has to be the kind of man who is reasonably civil to dukes, and not aggressively rude to marquesses, but has earls thrown into the street should one venture to approach him.
I can't see why you don't come over here to live for awhile. If you're writing a book, you can't beat it. I'm getting a room in an old cottage, and fixing it up as a library, so that—if I return to London at all for the winter—I can come out here for weekends or short holidays. The food is surprisingly good: I get 5 or 6 eggs a week, and almost unlimited sugar and butter!
Love is the law, love under will.
Do come soon!
A.C.
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