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Aleister Crowley Memorandum re Mr. John Bland Jameson Saturday, 4 February 1939
See HERE for Full Memorandum (12 May 1938 - 7 February 1939)
I discovered that he had cheated me in the matter of the Vigil. He went down to Richmond where we had put Miss Wetton [Peggy Wetton] in a riverside hotel, and took her out, and planted her, not in some proper place where she could be looked after, but at Hasker Street. He would not come into the house at all, but dashed off to the country.
In his outburst, the third point was that he wanted to break off all relations with me, and in particular, that I should get out off the house on Saturday February 11. I consider, on the contrary, first of all, that I have paid the rent until the end of June, and secondly, that the work I have put into the house must be paid for. I have suggested arbitration, which he rejects with scorn. He is apparently in favour of an amicable arrangement, and it is obviously proper to arrange some kind of conference at which terms can be discussed; but I shall insist on legal representation, and the whole situation must be clarified.
I have no ill feeling towards Mr Jameson, I regard his behaviour as instigated by some malicious person unknown. When we were in Cornwall, I exacted nothing from him but his pledged word of honour that in the event of any differences of opinion arising between us, he would inform me of the whole circumstances, fully and with absolute frankness. I tackled him on the morning of Saturday February 4, and he admitted that something serious had happened, but refused to tell me what it was, thereby forfeiting his word of honour. He then said that this was a matter which had been brewing for months; in that case, why did he not tell me when the first instance arose? In view of his perfectly friendly letter of February 3, this seems unintelligible.
I am asking for an elucidation of the whole matter on the basis of equity.
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