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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Eliza M. Butler
The Ridge Hastings
E.M. Butler, Newnham College, Cambridge.
Dec 18 [1945]
Dear Professor Butler.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Many thanks for your letter of the 16th. I will faithfully keep Jan 1 open for you, a most auspicious beginning for the year.
If you will let me know the hour of your arrival in Hastings, I will have a car to meet you at the station; perhaps you and your friend would do me the honour of lunching with me here.
I am glad you told me of your plans; for rooms in St. Leonard's will probably be very difficult to get, expensive and most unsatisfactory. I would advise you to arrange to stay here. The patron and madame lived for many years in France; so the cooking is perfect. Also, there is no limit to the things we need most: eggs (I usually get 2 a day), milk, sugar, butter. As for company, there is quite a sprinkling of professors, lecturers, writers etc; excellent in conversation.
I could book you two rooms for Jan 1 if you will wire me without delay. The hotels are all abject, but I will try a few of the least barbarous. Unfortunately there is no room available here before Jan 6.
Love is the law, love under will.
Yours sincerely,
Aleister Crowley
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