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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Montgomery Evans
BC/ANKH W.C.1
Please note new (sufficient) address.
Feb 8
Dear Monty
What a skimpy PC [Post Card]. You ought to be writing long gossipy letters. How's Rayner? How's everybody?
You ought to be full of news. I should greatly like your angle on Roosevelt, on the Jap scrap, on John Lewis, on the "recession."
No, not that! You can't tell me anything I don't know about that. Even the pawnbrokers are broke; nobody redeems the stuff, and there's no one to buy at the sales. But the Equinox of the Gods is not doing too badly. Have you bought your copy? Send me $5.00 by return.
That's the kind of guy I am these days! You see, Damon Runyon is the idol of the populace. The biggest [illegible] since Disney. And they've censored him now. God! what a crowd of Dummkopfs.
I'm bearing up, although besieged by lassies, some of them quite braw. Ataturk [Aleister Ataturk] is coming over the fences in style, getting his teeth through, and observing all men with a somewhat cynical air.
I am still trying to collect that $350,000 p.a from Spencer Lewis. If I could only get to Chicago, Elmer Gantry would put it over for me double quick.
And so to lunch.
Ever
A.C.
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