Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Sunday, 12 April 1942

 

 

[I Ching hexagram] 51.

     

USA censor refused and cancelled my NLT [night letter] of April 2. Educated people, take warning! Sent new message: NLT Unexpected situation requires earliest transfer maximum possible |stop| Perique [tobacco] acceptable |stop| 100 recd punctually written voluminously Crowley.

     

Tot: 5/12 92 [Heroin] plus 6 (40).

          

[Newspaper clipping]

     

So Gerald Yorke is home again safe! (I assume that no one else could even have conceived this Operation.)

     

Chess MAS [Maurice A. Sutherland]. Played 3 brilliant games: one (1 P-KK. . .)one of the best sacrificial combinations I have ever made! Lost 1: Drew 1.

     

Asked for my luggage: shewn a pent-house on roof full of junk, old newspapers, sall coal dust, & some of my Pickford sent stuff.

 

 

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