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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
Aston Clinton, Bucks
November 19th, 1944
Dear Louis
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
I thought I would let you know immediately your contribution turned up this morning. The National Provincial Bank in Piccadilly have got it, and I have arranged by telephone to extract it from them. Luckily the New York cable came in this morning, too, in an immediately tangible form, so that practically all my anxieties are over for the time being.
On the other hand, this place is clearly impossible as winter quarters. There is simply nowhere to go for a walk, and even if the weather is fine it is damp and sloshy underfoot and the roads are devastatingly uninteresting. It is a clay soil and always damp, it is flat and exposed and always windy, especially east and north—to put the matter in a nutshell, I am fed up with it. The Czech Manager continues to be outrageously insolent, it is too contemptible for me to make a row about, especially as he does not mean it in the least, but for all that it is unpleasant.
There is in consequence a strong probability that I shall move in about three weeks to a place on the borders of Sussex, and Kent which Cordelia [Cordelia Sutherland], who knows it and strongly recommends, has found for me. It is a cross-country journey and I shall have to hire a car which means getting a doctor's certificate to begin with. All very complicated, but I have explained to Cordelia that I refuse to stir a finger or even a toe. She will have to make all the arrangements for packing and everything else and fling me across as one who tosses the caber.
Miss Taylor [Crowley's Secretary] was perfectly correct in writing to you in the formal way of which you complain. It would have been very wrong indeed of her if she had addressed you as her old bean. She had not ever met you and she was writing in her official capacity and could not possibly have done otherwise, so please send her a smile from Belgium.
To save time I am asking her to sign this note.
Love is the law, love under will.
Lt. Grady L. McMurtry 1814th Ords. S. & M. Co (Avn), A.P.O. 149000 P.M. U.S. Army N.Y. N.Y. Belgium
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