Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Saturday, 5 April 1941

[I Ching hexagram] 24.

New “maid” Mrs. Dora Everett of 18 Jessel Court(?) Chambers(?) King’s Cross, the only part of London which puts the cleanliness of the Dutch housewife to shame, arrived. She has a maniac lust for disorder which she calls being tidy.

Battle royal with Doris Middleton. I won & was magnanimous with smiles, smokes, & sherry.

X. [Grace M. Horton] had a very bad night, but woke feeling much better.

After lunch she was sleepy—so was I, the weather turned nasty—but pulled herself together nobly, & did the shopping.

She was not upset by the apparent lack of C₂H₅OH [alcohol] or keen to get more. I am giving her Tinct. Nuc. Vom. in gin as an apertif.

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