Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Wednesday, 12 December 1945

 

 

[I Ching hexagram] 2.

     

"The Girl who came back"[1] opens.

     

£80.6.5 from Saturnus [Karl Germer].

     

Chit from Frederick [Frederic Mellinger].

     

Beat Herringshaw in [chess] 2nd round. Qs gambit declined. He crashed on move 30 & resigned on move 32. He was two P[awn]s down, Q[ueen]s gone, & his whole position in tatters.

     

In hand £256 approx.

 

 

1—A play written by Crowley's landlord, Vernon Symonds.

 

 

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