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Aleister Crowley Memorandum re Mr. John Bland Jameson Thursday, 2 June 1938
See HERE for Full Memorandum (12 May 1938 - 7 February 1939)
I called for him [John Jameson] at the Arts Theatre Club, and we went off, I think to Rule's, but I am not quite sure. In the course of the conversation, it transpired that he was going down to Cornwall for July and August to play with the Cornish Shakespearean Festival Society.
The house at 6 Hasker Street consists of two parts:
(a) Basement—study with back door, leading to area and up steps to street. Windowless bedroom cut off by curtains from a bathroom in a penthouse. This had been a kitchen and he had turned it into a bathroom for the reasons shortly following.
(b) Ground Floor—This is an excellent double room with large windows at each end; the room runs right through the house. This room had been completely neglected by Mr Jameson; there were odd pieces of furniture stuck about it, most of them in a very dilapidated condition, and the room was not used at all, except on such occasions as a party, when furniture and provisions were brought in by the caterers.
(c) A door shuts off the upper part of the house, which is, therefore, a sort of maisonette. This part was occupied by a Mr David Fletcher of Lloyd's; the front room, large and light, used as a sitting room, the back room used as a bedroom; and from the bedroom, a narrow flight of stairs led to another bathroom. The whole house is completely electrified.
Finding that he was leaving the lower part of the house unoccupied, I offered to take it from him during his absence, and he agreed to this, suggesting the rent at 30/- a week. I was to vacate the premises on Sept 20 as, although Mr Fletcher was leaving the upper part of the house on or before that date, another tenant was expected to take it over.
I think I must have gone down again to Hasker Street on that day, though I do not remember for what purpose.
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