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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Grady McMurtry
The Ridge Hastings
21 - 5 - '45 E.V.
Dear Grady,
93.
Thanks for £4.19.2 came this A.M.
I am so confused that I can't remember if I have told you about Grant [Kenneth Grant]. In London he had been A.1.; here he broke down altogether. Memory went west; you couldn't trust him to do a thing; he would leave me with the impression that he had done it when he had shelved it or forgotten it altogether. Then, silly things like signing and posting letters that should have come to me fair-copied for revision and signature. He got worse every week. Now he's back in town let's hope he'll be OK, again. Meanwhile, I can't tell what mischief he may not have done.
Don't blame him overmuch; in the Army he had 3 goes of jaundice, and recurrent amnesia; so they kissed him Good-bye.
One point about peace in Europe; it may be now possible to get a book published. Hope so, for everybody's sake, but especially yours!
Yesterday the Master of Ceremonies roped me in to lecture on Magick. A success, by my standard; I elicited quite a lot of intelligent questions; only 3 of the usual B.F. blah. I got rid of 15-20 copies of Liber AL (American edition) also some Liber OZ and prospectuses for A.E.E. [Alexander Explains Everything—this was eventually published as Magick Without Tears].
Oodles of arrears to clean up in the line of correspondence; which the proper sorting and grouping of the "Letters" which Grant should have done, and didn't, so aufwiedersehen!
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Yours,
Aleister
Lieut. Grady L. McMurtry 1814th Ord. S&M Co (Avn) A.P.O. 149 U.S. Army
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