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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Louis Umfreville Wilkinson
May 31 [1946]
Most gracious of you, dear Louis, to write that comfortable and reassuring letter. Very Christlike!
I regret one thing—that you broadcast the Y.M. [Young Man] and the P.O. [Post Office]. My fault: I should have warned you that I had already submitted it to a Magazine,[1] which cheered loudly and said "I shall recommend it warmly to my Editor". Please advise those you told, if not too much trouble. I don't want it pinched
But I am really unable to express my loathing of your ingenuity in finding a sexual meaning. It winna do, laddie; it winna do.
1. Your interpretation does not make the story funny. It's ingenious; but makes the incident stupid and vulgar.
2. It is ruled out by the stranger's remorse.
3. I abhor bringing sex in where it doesn't belong as I do keeping it out where it does.
Do you pass through Denmark? I have 2 100 Kr[ona] notes and one 50 Kr. It is illegal to take any note higher than 10 Kr out of D.[enmark]. So you could change them for small notes, or into English money, or otherwise get me a bit over £12.10.0 for them.
In haste and windy fog.
93 93/93.
Yours,
Aleister
1—"How to tell an Englishman from an American." Article written by Crowley and published in the August 1946 issue of Lilliput.
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