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Correspondence from Karl Germer to Philip Kaplan
West Point, Calif. Box 258
April 29, 1958.
Dear Philip:
Your package mailed April 23 came only yesterday afternoon, so it is too late to write you to LIC. I address this c/o Amexco, London, and will also send a copy of this to Yorke [Gerald Yorke], so that he will be prepared.
I am very glad to have the photographs of Alexandra and the Vision and the Voice material; you did an excellent job.
Alexandra does not particularly interest me; it shows all the mannerisms of Crowley's work of that period. Nor can I follow all the allusions, nor do I know the background of the whole; it will make it important to people like Yorke.
Re: Notebook I: [the Vision and the Voice] this is the manuscript of "A Note" exactly as printed in the Special Supplement in Equinox I, v, pages 10 to 11. Then follows the original manuscript in the hand of Crowley of "The Cry of the 28th Aethyr", as printed in Eqx. I, v pp. 11-14. I can find only an insignificant transposition of some words in one place, otherwise it is identical.
(What surprises me is that it is written in A.C.'s hand. I thought or expected these Aethyrs to be written in the hand of Victor Neuburg who was with him, and usually acted as a scribe.)
Re: The second manuscript: "A Comment upon the Natures of the Aethyrs" This also is exactly as printed in the Equinox I, v, Supplement pp. 173-176.
I am glad you are in the confidence of Lund [Robert Lund] and that he promised to send you the papers he still has for you to inspect. I cannot help feeling that they may contain some material of great interest. He may not see their value at all, and may decide to simply let you keep them. Do you your best that he does.
I congratulate you especially for his gift to you of the 3 volumes of The Holy Books [Volume I, Volume II, Volume III], items 60 A, 60 B, 60 C, in Yorke's bibliography. From your old list of your collection I see that you only had 60 C so far.
I hope you will never regret to have invested in this collection and am looking forward to the day when I shall be able to visit New York and look it over personally.
Now once more: pleasant journey!
yours
Karl.
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