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Location: Hotel Foyot,
Room 21, 33, Rue de Tournon,
Paris.
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Location: Hotel Foyot,
Room 21, 33, Rue de Tournon,
Paris.
- Gerald Yorke
returns to London from visiting Crowley in Paris.
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News Related to Crowley:
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Diary Entries:
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Aleister Crowley |
Location: Hotel Foyot,
Room 21, 33, Rue de Tournon,
Paris.
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Location: Hotel Foyot,
Room 21, 33, Rue de Tournon,
Paris.
- Crowley meets Michel,
"a Dahomey negro, who fucked me and sucked me off—in honour
of Aiwas.
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Current Events:
- George Cecil Jones
is 55 years old. |
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Wednesday,
11
January 1928 |
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Thursday, 12
January 1928 |
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Location: Hotel Foyot,
Room 21, 33, Rue de Tournon,
Paris.
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Current Events:
- Norman Mudd
is 39 years old. |
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Wednesday,
18 January 1928 |
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Location: Hotel Foyot,
Room 21, 33, Rue de Tournon,
Paris.
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Current Events:
- Karl Germer
is 43 years old. |
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Thursday, 26
January 1928 |
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Thursday, 1
February 1928 |
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Thursday, 2
February 1928 |
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Wednesday, 8
February 1928 |
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Tuesday, 14
February 1928 |
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Saturday, 25
February 1928 |
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Location: Hotel Foyot,
Room 21, 33, Rue de Tournon,
Paris.
- Crowley travels to
Fontainebleau for the day.
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- Crowley conducts a
magical sexual operation with swimming champion, Lili..
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Current Events:
- George Cecil Jones
is 55 years old. |
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Location: Hotel Foyot,
Paris.
- Crowley receives a letter
from the publisher W. Collins & Sons, Ltd. returning to him
full rights of
The Diary of a Drug Fiend.
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Location: Hotel Foyot,
Paris. |
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Current Events:
- Anniversary
of Crowley receiving the
Book of the Law.
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Location: Hotel Foyot,
Paris. |
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Current Events:
- Anniversary
of Crowley receiving the
Book of the Law.
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Location: Hotel Foyot,
Paris. |
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Current Events:
- Anniversary of the
death of Crowley's mother,
Emily. |
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Location: Hotel Foyot,
Paris. |
Correspondence:
-
Crowley to
Gerald Yorke |
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Current Events:
- The
General Electric Company opens the first television station. |
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Location: Hotel Foyot,
Paris.
- Crowley, after receiving
Ł100 from
Gerald Yorke dispatches his daughter
Lulu to Madame Mathonat's little school at Mory-Montcrux,
outside Ansauvillers, Oise, 50 miles north of Paris.
[397] |
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News Related to Crowley:
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Belleville News-Democrat |
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Location: Hotel Foyot,
Paris. |
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News Related to Crowley:
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Daily Argus |
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- Crowley leaves Paris for
Dijon and has an "excellent dinner" at Le Pré aux Clercs
restaurant.
[397] |
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News Related to Crowley:
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South Bend Tribune |
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Location: Hotel
Panoramas, Cassis, France.
- Crowley conducts a magical
sexual operation (Opus 54) with
Kasimira Bass with the object being to cure a nervously
exhausted Kasimira. According to Crowley it "calmed her
temper, or was it the sunbathing?"
[397] |
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Location: Hotel
Panoramas, Cassis, France.
- Crowley and
Kasimira Bass join New Jersey-born Langston Moffett and
his wife, Claudia, for a 10-mile excursion along the coast
to Bandol.
[397] |
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Location: Hotel
Panoramas, Cassis, France.
- Crowley introduces himself
at the hotel to
Lance Sieveking.
[397] |
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Location: Hotel du
Petit Nice, Corniche, Marseille, France.
- Crowley and
Kasimira Bass go up the coast to La Ciotat to
investigate villas, then to Marseille and the Hotel du Petit
Nice, Corniche.
[397] |
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Current Events:
- The
Summer Solstice. |
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- Crowley sees the movie
Les Nuits de Chicago, a French version of Josef von
Sternberg's Oscar-winning Underworld, calling it "a
really good crook film."
[397] |
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- Crowley and
Kasimira Bass investigate villas at the port of
l'Estaque, a little north of Marseille.
[397] |
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- Crowley and
Kasimira Bass go to Carry-le-Rouet, 9 miles up the
coast, and as far again to Martigues, looking for villas.
[397] |
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Location: Hotel du
Chateau, Carry-le Rouet, Bouches du Rhone,
France. |
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Current Events:
- Machine-sliced
bread is sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking
Company. |
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Location: Hotel du
Chateau, Carry-le Rouet, Bouches du Rhone,
France. |
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News Related to Crowley:
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Mid-Sussex Times |
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Gerald Yorke arrives, arranges a regular allowance of
Ł10 a week till the year's end and establishes a publishing
syndicate to promote Crowley's works. All the while
Kasimira Bass raves insanely in front of Yorke. Crowley
thinks her jealous of his and Yorke's talks.
[397] |
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Location: Hotel Royal
Condé, 10 Rue de Condé, Paris.
- Crowley is driven to Sausset-les-Pins.
[397]
-
Gerald Yorke is visiting Crowley.
[397] |
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Location: Hotel Royal
Condé, 10 Rue de Condé, Paris.
- Crowley goes to Martigues
for dinner and declares it "A rotten hole."
[397]
-
Gerald Yorke is visiting Crowley.
[397] |
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Location: Hotel Royal
Condé, 10 Rue de Condé, Paris.
-
Gerald Yorke is visiting Crowley.
[397] |
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Current Events:
- Rose Kelly
is 54 years old. |
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Location: Hotel Royal
Condé, 10 Rue de Condé, Paris.
-
Gerald Yorke returns to London from visiting Crowley.
[397] |
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Location: Hotel
Splendide, Marseille.
- Crowley
and
Kasimira Bass travel from the little ski resort of La
Grave, some 21 miles south of Grenoble, walking up to the
ruined chalets below the Glacier de la Meije where they
perform a magical sexual operation (Opus 88).
[397] |
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Location: Hotel
Splendide, Marseille.
- Crowley
and
Kasimira Bass have a tiring, five-hour walk to the
glacier moraine.
[397] |
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Location: Exploring the
mountains near Grenoble, France.
- Crowley
and
Kasimira Bass travel up from La Grave more than half a
mile to Les Terrasses to see glaciers and a Romanesque
church.
[397] |
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Current Events:
- Artist,
Andy Warhol is born. |
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Location: Hotel de la
Meije, La Grave. Exploring the
mountains near Grenoble, France.
[397]
- Crowley
and
Kasimira Bass check into La Grave's Hotel de la Meije.
[397] |
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Location: Exploring the
mountains near Grenoble, France.
- Crowley hears from
Lance Sieveking.
[233] |
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Location: Exploring the
mountains near Grenoble, France.
[397]
- Crowley
and
Kasimira Bass hike to the Hut Evariste Chancel refuge
(2,508 m), with a view of a lake. Crowley's first time in an
Alpine hut since August 1914.
[397] |
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Location: Hotel De
Lameije, Coli du Lantaret, Hautes Alpes, France.
- Crowley
and
Kasimira Bass travel to Hotel de Glaciers, Col de
Lauteret. Crowley notes "Hotel bad—neither old style nor
new. No service, vile food, and they steal one's wine.
Poisoned by paté. Took K.[asimira] up to snow. She was
fine."
[397] |
Correspondence:
-
Crowley to
Gerald Yorke
-
Crowley to
Gerald Yorke |
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Current Events:
- Frieda Harris
is 51 years old. |
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Wednesday,
15
August 1928 |
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Location: Terminus
Hotel, Briançon, France.
- Crowley
and
Kasimira Bass travel two hours by car to Briançon's
Terminus Hotel, some 40 miles southeast of Grenoble.
[397] |
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Location: Hotel
Lombard.
- Crowley
and
Kasimira Bass take the train to Gap to the Hotel
Lombard.
[397] |
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Wednesday,
29
August 1928 |
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Location: Hotel Royal
Condé, 10 Rue de Condé, Paris.
- Crowley
and
Kasimira Bass leave Grenoble and arrive in Paris at
10:04 p.m. They perform a magical sexual operation with the
object being "Wundaschon sex magick for 'Gold'."
[397] |
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Saturday, 1
September 1928 |
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Tuesday, 4
September 1928 |
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Location: Hotel Royal
Condé, 10 Rue de Condé, Paris.
- Crowley sees the movie Le
Baiser Mortel."
[397] |
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Thursday, 6
September 1928 |
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Saturday, 8
September 1928 |
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Tuesday, 11
September 1928 |
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Wednesday,
12 September 1928 |
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Saturday, 15 September 1928 |
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Location: Hotel Royal
Condé, 10 Rue de Condé, Paris. |
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Current Events:
- Scottish
bacteriologist, Alexander Fleming discovers the antibiotic penicillin. |
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Wednesday,
19 September 1928 |
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Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: 55 Avenue de
Suffren, Paris.
- Crowley moves to 55
Avenue de Suffren, Paris.
[105]
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Saturday, 22
September 1928 |
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Sunday, 23
September 1928 |
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Location: 55 Avenue de
Suffren, Paris.
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Current Events:
- The Fall Equinox. |
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Monday, 24
September 1928 |
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Wednesday,
26
September 1928 |
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Location: 55 Avenue de
Suffren, Paris.
- Crowley's
seven-year-old daughter
Astarte arrives in Paris.
[108]
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Thursday, 27
September 1928 |
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Friday, 28 September 1928 |
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Location: 55 Avenue de
Suffren, Paris. |
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Current Events:
- The
United Kingdom passes the Dangerous Drugs Act outlawing
marijuana. |
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Sunday, 30
September 1928 |
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Wednesday,
10 October 1928 |
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Thursday, 11
October 1928 |
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Diary Entries:
-
Aleister Crowley |
Location: 55 Avenue de
Suffren, Paris.
- Crowley
is 53 years old.
- Israel Regardie
arrives from America at 1:11 p.m.
[105]
- Crowley
reports the theft of 5,000 francs by
Kasimira Bass
to the Police. He is later visited by
Carl de Vidal Hunt
and while moving a large statue he finds the stolen 5,000
francs under the statue and believes it is Hunt who has
returned the money taken by Kasimira Bass.
[114]
- Crowley purchases from
The Galignani Library, 224, Rue de Rivoli, Paris, the books;
Golden Verse - Pythagoras, Charteris Mystery,
Footsteps that Stopped, and a stamp.
[271] |
Correspondence:
-
C.K. Ogden to Unknown Correspondent |
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Current Events:
- The
first use of an iron lung machine. |
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Saturday, 13
October 1928 |
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Thursday, 18
October 1928 |
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Location: 55 Avenue de
Suffren, Paris.
- Crowley is
in Cassis and Marseilles suffering from ptomaine poisoning. |
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Saturday, 20
October 1928 |
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Wednesday,
24 October 1928 |
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Thursday, 25 October 1928 |
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Saturday, 27
October 1928 |
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Thursday, 1
November 1928 |
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Location: 55 Avenue de
Suffren, Paris.
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Correspondence:
-
Karl Germer to Gerald Yorke |
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Current Events:
- Composer,
Dmitri Shostakovish'd 1st Symphony premieres in
Philadelphia. |
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Saturday, 3
November 1928 |
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Location: 55 Avenue de
Suffren, Paris.
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Current Events:
- Herbert
Hoover is elected the 31st President of the United States. |
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Wednesday, 7
November 1928 |
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Thursday, 8
November 1928 |
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Tuesday, 13
November 1928 |
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Location: 55 Avenue de
Suffren, Paris.
- Crowley performs a magical
sexual operation with Annette de Ligon with the object being
for "the Great Work."
[397] |
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Wednesday,
14 November 1928 |
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Thursday, 15 November 1928 |
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Saturday, 17 November 1928 |
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Location: 55 Avenue de
Suffren, Paris. |
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Current Events:
- Israel Regardie
is 21 years old. |
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Location: 55 Avenue de
Suffren, Paris.
- Today is
Crowley's 30th "magical" birthday—The anniversary of his
initiation into the
Golden Dawn on 18 November 1898. |
Correspondence:
-
Crowley to
Gerald Yorke
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Current Events:
- Walt
Disney's Steamboat Willie is released, the first
Mickey Mouse sound cartoon. |
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Tuesday, 20
November 1928 |
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Wednesday,
21
November 1928 |
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Thursday, 22
November 1928 |
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Location: 55 Avenue de
Suffren, Paris.
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Correspondence:
-
Crowley to
Gerald Yorke
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Current Events:
- First
public performance of composer, Maurice Ravel's Bolero
in Paris. |
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Wednesday,
28
November 1928 |
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Thursday, 6
December 1928 |
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Tuesday, 11
December 1928 |
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Wednesday,
12
December 1928 |
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Thursday, 13
December 1928 |
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Location: 55 Avenue de
Suffren, Paris. |
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Current Events:
- Louis Wilkinson
is 47 years old. |
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Wednesday, 19
December 1928 |
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Location: 55 Avenue de
Suffren, Paris. |
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Current Events:
- Gerald Yorke
is 27 years old. |
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Thursday, 20
December 1928 |
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Saturday, 22
December 1928 |
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Location: 55 Avenue de
Suffren, Paris.
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Correspondence:
-
Crowley to
Gerald Yorke |
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Current Events:
- The
Winter Solstice. |
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Tuesday, 25
December 1928 |
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Wednesday,
26 December 1928 |
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Saturday, 29
December 1928 |
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