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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Gerald Yorke
10.4.47
You must think me very remiss and ungrateful not to have acknowledged your last two communications. It was twice or even four times what I had hoped; still I know how you and everybody else is situated. At the same time the work is, after all, the most important thing in our lives.
The electricity cuts held up the printer altogether for some weeks but he is now resuming his evil practices and promised me the first proofs of Liber Aleph on his being able to pick up some paper, and that doesn't seem too hopeful.
One of my reasons for not answering you was that I fell ill, and on 8th March I came within an ace of death. All the telephones were down, buses not running, roads deep in snow, but the doctor got to me just in time. If he had arrived 20 minutes later I would probably have been dead. I am quite well again now, but very nervous and tottery. However it ought to do me good when the proofs of Liber Aleph come in.
I wish you would find a day to run down and lunch with me. It is years since our last meeting. I have a great deal of work to do this afternoon, and I can only get secretarial help for a couple of hours a week, and I got dreadfully in arrears, naturally enough. You see, I was even too messed up to send out the Word [Word of the Equinox] punctually. It is very nice down here now that at last we have got some sunshine, but I am very lonely and should appreciate a visit from you more than I can say. Being busy as well as tired, I will break off here. With hopes that Angela and the children are all well and happy.
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