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circa 1929

Diary Entries:

  - Karl Germer

- Crowley's book Magick in Theory and Practice - Section 1 is published.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Henri Birven

—  January  —

Tuesday, 1 January 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   - Israel Regardie to Firma Haalmeijer

   - N.J.N. Foreman to Crowley

News Related to Crowley:

   - Fortnightly Review

Thursday, 3 January 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Saturday, 5 January 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Sunday, 6 January 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Cora Germer

Current Events:

   - Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin her work amongst India's poorest.

Monday, 7 January 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerard Aumont

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Current Events:

   - First appearance in a newspaper of the comic strips "Tarzan" & "Buck Rogers."

Wednesday, 9 January 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   - Gerald Yorke to Crowley

Thursday, 10 January 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Current Events:

   - George Cecil Jones is 56 years old.

Friday, 11 January 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Saturday, 12 January 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Sunday, 13 January 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Monday, 14 January 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Correspondence:

   - N.J.N. Foreman to Crowley

   - Lulu Crowley to Crowley

Tuesday, 15 January 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

- Karl Germer marries Cora Eaton in Jersey City, New Jersey. [56] 

Current Events:

   - Martin Luther King Jr. is born.

Wednesday, 16 January 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Current Events:

   - Norman Mudd is 40 years old.

Thursday, 17 January 1929

Diary Entries:

  - Aleister Crowley

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

- Crowley receives the final proofs of the prospectus for Magick in Theory and Practice. [108] 

- Crowley is visited by a man from the Prefecture of Police asking about cartes d'identité for Crowley and Israel Regardie, Crowley's drug use, his whereabouts for the past year, etc. [108] 

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Montgomery Evans

   - Crowley to Wilfred T. Smith

   - Crowley to Jane Wolfe

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Current Events:

   - "Popeye" makes his first appearance in a comic strip

Friday, 18 January 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Saturday, 19 January 1929

Diary Entries:

  - Aleister Crowley

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Wilfred T. Smith

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Sunday, 20 January 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Correspondence:

   - Israel Regardie to Gerald Yorke

Monday, 21 January 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Correspondence:

   - Lulu Crowley to Crowley

   - Israel Regardie to Gerald Yorke

Tuesday, 22 January 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Current Events:

   - Karl Germer is 44 years old.

Wednesday, 23 January 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Saturday, 26 January 1929

Diary Entries:

  - Aleister Crowley

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

- Gerald Yorke pays Crowley a visit. [105]

Sunday, 27 January 1929

Diary Entries:

  - Aleister Crowley

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

- Gerald Yorke is visiting Crowley. [105]

- Gerard Aumont visits Crowley. [105]

Monday, 28 January 1929

Diary Entries:

  - Aleister Crowley

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

- Gerald Yorke returns to London. [105]

- Gerard Aumont is visiting Crowley. [105]

Tuesday, 29 January 1929

Diary Entries:

  - Aleister Crowley

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

- Gerard Aumont is visiting Crowley. [105]

Wednesday, 30 January 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

- Gerard Aumont is visiting Crowley. [105]

Thursday, 31 January 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

- Gerard Aumont is visiting Crowley. [105]

—  February  —

circa February 1929

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Friday, 1 February 1929

Diary Entries:

  - Aleister Crowley

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

- Gerard Aumont is visiting Crowley. [105]

Saturday, 2 February 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

- Gerard Aumont is visiting Crowley. [105]

Sunday, 3 February 1929

Diary Entries:

  - Aleister Crowley

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

- Gerard Aumont leaves. [105]

- Four London Bohemians, including Betty May and Mr. Edgell Rickword, the poet, are arrested tonight in Dieppe, France and detained by the police until Monday morning. The arrest occurred after it was found that the party of four had no money to pay for their dinner. [Daily News]

Monday, 4 February 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

- Crowley chooses the paper for the wrappers for Magick in Theory and Practice - Section 1, 2, 3 & 4 to be published by the Lecram Press in Paris. [353]

Tuesday, 5 February 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

- Crowley purchases from The Galignani Library, 224, Rue de Rivoli, Paris, the books; No Other Tiger, The Prisoner in the Opal, Poirot Investigates, Secret of Chimneys, Raphaels Ephemeris 1929 and a stamp. [271]

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Wednesday, 6 February 1929

Diary Entries:

  - Aleister Crowley

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris. 

News Related to Crowley:

   - Daily Express

Friday, 8 February 1929

Diary Entries:

  - Aleister Crowley

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

- Crowley leaves for Fontainebleau in the afternoon. [108]

Saturday, 9 February 1929

Diary Entries:

  - Aleister Crowley

Location: Fontainebleau.

- Kasimira Bass accosts Maria de Miramar in an autobus and threatens her. [105]

- Crowley is in Fontainebleau. [397]

- Israel Regardie returns back home to Crowley's apartment from the hospital. [108]

Sunday, 10 February 1929

Location: Fontainebleau.

- Maria de Miramar joins Crowley in Fontainebleau and they perform a magical sexual operation with the results being "A1." [397]

Tuesday, 12 February 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

- Crowley and Maria de Miramar arrive back in Paris at 5:00 p.m. after being in Fontainebleau. [397]

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Wednesday, 13 February 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Lecram Press

   - Crowley to Dorothy Olsen

   - Crowley to Wilfred T. Smith

   - Israel Regardie to Gerald Yorke

Thursday, 14 February 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

- The first page proofs of Crowley's book Magick in Theory and Practice are delivered on 14 or 15 February. [353]

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   - Lulu Crowley to Crowley

Current Events:

   - The St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago with 7 gangsters killed, allegedly on the orders of Al Capone.

Friday, 15 February 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

- The first page proofs of Crowley's book Magick in Theory and Practice are delivered on 14 or 15 February. [353]

Sunday, 17 February 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

- Crowley plays chess at the Groupe de Paris Chess Club which results in this match. [105]

Monday, 18 February 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Wilfred T. Smith

Tuesday, 19 February 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Friday, 22 February 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke #2

Sunday, 24 February 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Wilfred T. Smith

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   - Israel Regardie to Gerald Yorke

Monday, 25 February 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   - Wilfred T. Smith to Crowley

Wednesday, 27 February 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Thursday, 28 February 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Martin Birnbaum

—  March  —

circa March 1929

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Israel Regardie

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Saturday, 2 March 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

- Crowley purchases from The Galignani Library, 224, Rue de Rivoli, Paris, the books; The Wynchford Poisoning Case, Blatchington Tangle, White Crow and a stamp. [271]

Correspondence:

   - Anglo-American Pharmacy to Crowley

Sunday, 3 March 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

- Crowley competes for the Coupe de Paris, and plays to a draw against chess luminary, Odessa-born Vitaly Halberstadt. [397]

Monday, 4 March 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   - Crowley to The Lecram Press

Tuesday, 5 March 1929

Diary Entries:

  - Aleister Crowley

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

- Crowley, Maria de Miramar, and Israel Regardie are summoned to the office of the Paris Prefecture of Police. Since Crowley is ill in bed, the Prefecture agrees to put the appointment off until Friday, 8 March. [105]

- Crowley purchases from The Galignani Library, 224, Rue de Rivoli, Paris, the book The Dynamiter. [271]

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Current Events:

   - Anniversary of Edward Crowley's death.

Wednesday, 6 March 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Correspondence:

   - Israel Regardie to Gerald Yorke

Thursday, 7 March 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Friday, 8 March 1929

Diary Entries:

  - Israel Regardie

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

- Maria de Miramar and Israel Regardie meet with the Paris Prefecture of Police and are given slips of paper (Réfus de Séjour) dated 15 February 1929, with the insistence from the Prefecture of Police that they leave the country on 9 March. Crowley, ill in bed, is unable to attend the meeting and an inspector calls later in the afternoon to bring Crowley one as well. [105]

- Israel Regardie meets with Mr. W. E. de Courcy, the American Consul, and asks him to intervene with the Paris Prefecture regarding his expulsion from France. [116]

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Yorke

Saturday, 9 March 1929

Diary Entries:

  - Israel Regardie

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

- Israel Regardie meets again with Mr. W. E. de Courcy, the American Consul, in the morning and is told that there are no charges against him personally but is being expelled because he is Crowley's secretary. [116]

- In the evening Maria de Miramar and Israel Regardie set sail from Dunkerque, France for Tilbury, England aboard the Alsace. [116]

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Clifford Church

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

News Related to Crowley:

   - Palm Beach Post

Sunday, 10 March 1929

Diary Entries:

  - Israel Regardie

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

- Maria de Miramar and Israel Regardie are met by Gerald Yorke in Tilbury, England but shortly after 7 a.m. they are refused entry into England and returned to the ship Alsace. A little after 8 p.m. Regardie is visited aboard ship by a Scotland Yard detective who searched his trunk. The boat sailed at 11:30 p.m. to return them to Dunkerque, France. [116]

- Crowley is allowed to temporarily remain in France due to his poor health. [105]

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Montgomery Evans

Monday, 11 March 1929

Diary Entries:

  - Israel Regardie

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

- Maria de Miramar and Israel Regardie arrive back in Dunkerque, France aboard the ship Alsace. At 10:10 they took the train to Lille, Belgium. They eventually take rooms at the Hotel des Colonies, Rue des Croisades, Brussels. [116], [233]

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Israel Regardie

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Wednesday, 13 March 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Israel Regardie

Friday, 15 March 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Correspondence:

   - Martha Kuntzel to Crowley

Saturday, 16 March 1929

Diary Entries:

  - Aleister Crowley

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

- Crowley conducts a magical sexual operation with a woman named Lina for the purpose "to help de M [Maria de Miramar] out of her trouble". [339]

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Wilfred T. Smith

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Monday, 18 March 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Correspondence:

   - Wilfred T. Smith to Crowley

Current Events:

   - Composer, Dmitri Shostakovich's The New Babylon premieres in Leningrad.

Wednesday, 20 March 1929

Diary Entries:

  - Israel Regardie

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

- Crowley's daughter, Astarte, (and her dog) pays him a visit. [233]

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   - Pitt & Scott, Ltd. to Crowley

Thursday, 21 March 1929

Current Events:

   - The Spring Equinox.

   - Jane Wolfe is 54 years old.

Friday, 22 March 1929

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Karl Germer

Monday, 25 March 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Correspondence:

   - Karl Germer to Montgomery Evans

Tuesday, 26 March 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Israel Regardie

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Thursday, 28 March 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

News Related to Crowley:

   - West-Sussex Gazette

Friday, 29 March 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Current Events:

   - The first telephone is installed at the desk of a U.S. President.

—  April  —

Monday, 1 April 1929

Diary Entries:

  - Memo re Carl de Vidal Hunt

  - Regardie Memo re Expulsion

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Wilfred T. Smith

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Current Events:

   - The toy yo-yo is introduced.

Tuesday, 2 April 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Current Events:

   - Charles Stansfeld Jones is 43 years old.

Saturday, 6 April 1929

Diary Entries:

  - Aleister Crowley

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

- Gerald Yorke visits Crowley and he and Henry Noble Hall have dinner with him. [105]

- Crowley's daughter, Astarte, pays him a visit. [233]

Monday, 8 April 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Current Events:

   - Anniversary of Crowley receiving the Book of the Law.

Tuesday, 9 April 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Current Events:

   - Anniversary of Crowley receiving the Book of the Law.

   - Leah Hirsig is 46 years old.

Wednesday, 10 April 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Wilfred T. Smith

Current Events:

   - Anniversary of Crowley receiving the Book of the Law.

Friday, 12 April 1929

Diary Entries:

  - Aleister Crowley

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

- Crowley receives an advance copy of Section 1 of Magick in Theory and Practice from The Lecram Press at 5:55 p.m. [105]

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Israel Regardie

Saturday, 13 April 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Sunday, 14 April 1929

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Current Events:

   - Anniversary of the death of Crowley's mother, Emily.

Monday, 15 April 1929

Diary Entries:

  - Aleister Crowley

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Tuesday, 16 April 1929

Diary Entries:

  - Aleister Crowley

Location: 55 Avenue de Suffren, Paris.

- The Paris-Midi publishes a story that states that Crowley is about to be expelled from France due to his acting as a secret service agent for Germany during the war.

- Crowley spends the day seeing reporters and being photographed. [105]

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

News Related to Crowley:

   - Paris-Midi

   - Reno Gazette-Journal

   - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Wednesday, 17 April 1929

Diary Entries:

  - Aleister Crowley

  - Summary of Events

Location: Hotel Metropole, Room 459, Brussels, Belgium. [271]

- Crowley leaves France on the 10:00 a.m. train for Brussels, Belgium. After Crowley arrives he and Maria de Miramar perform a magical sexual operation with the object being "Success to our campaign and happiness in marriage." [397] [105], [397] 

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

News Related to Crowley:

   - Akron Beacon Journal

   - Argus Leader

   - Baltimore Sun

   - Birmingham Gazette

   - Chicago Tribune

   - Daily Record

   - Evening Tribune

   - Gazette

   - Le Journal

   - Le Petit Parisien

   - Milwaukee Journal

   - Los Angeles Times

   - New York Times

   - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

   - San Francisco Chronicle

   - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

   - Tacoma News Tribune

Thursday, 18 April 1929

Diary Entries:

  - Aleister Crowley

Location: Hotel Metropole, Room 459, Brussels, Belgium.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Jane Wolfe

News Related to Crowley:

   - Belfast Telegraph

   - Le Populaire

   - Los Angeles Times

   - Manchester Guardian

   - Plain Dealer

   - Paris-Midi

   - Paris-Soire

   - San Bernardino County Sun

   - Sioux City Journal

Friday, 19 April 1929

Location: Hotel Metropole, Room 459, Brussels, Belgium.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Caledonian Society

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   - Martha Kuntzel to Crowley

Saturday, 20 April 1929

Location: Hotel Metropole, Room 459, Brussels, Belgium.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Sunday, 21 April 1929

Location: Hotel Metropole, Room 459, Brussels, Belgium.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Martha Kuntzel

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

News Related to Crowley:

   - Reynolds Newspaper

Monday, 22 April 1929

Location: Hotel Metropole, Room 459, Brussels, Belgium.

Tuesday, 23 April 1929

Location: Hotel Metropole, Room 459, Brussels, Belgium.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Wednesday, 24 April 1929

Location: Hotel Metropole, Room 459, Brussels, Belgium.

Correspondence:

   - Vern Haskins to Crowley

News Related to Crowley:

   - Rock Island Argus

Thursday, 25 April 1929

Location: Hotel Métropole, Brussells, Belgium.

Correspondence:

   - Martha Kuntzel to Crowley

Saturday, 27 April 1929

News Related to Crowley:

   - Daily Republican

   - John Bull

   - Schenectady Gazette

   - Standard Union

   - Utica Observer

Monday, 29 April 1929

Correspondence:

   - Paul Foster Case to Dorothy Olsen

Tuesday, 30 April 1929

Location: chez M. Schlosser, Cugnon-Mortehan, Semois, Belgium.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Wilfred T. Smith

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

—  May  —

circa May 1929

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Karl Germer

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Wednesday, 1 May 1929

Location: chez M. Schlosser, Cugnon-Mortehan, Semois, Belgium.

Correspondence:

   - Everard Feilding to Gerald Yorke

News Related to Crowley:

   - Hammond Lake County Times

   - Times

Thursday, 2 May 1929

Location: chez M. Schlosser, Cugnon-Mortehan, Semois, Belgium.

News Related to Crowley:

   - Star-Gazette

Friday, 3 May 1929

Location: chez M. Schlosser, Cugnon-Mortehan, Semois, Belgium.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Saturday, 4 May 1929

Location: chez M. Schlosser, Cugnon-Mortehan, Semois, Belgium.

Current Events:

   - Actress Audrey Hepburn is born.

Sunday, 5 May 1929

Location: chez M. Schlosser, Cugnon-Mortehan, Semois, Belgium.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Montgomery Evans

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Monday, 6 May 1929

Location: chez M. Schlosser, Cugnon-Mortehan, Semois, Belgium.

Current Events:

   - Victor B. Neuburg is 46 years old.

Saturday, 11 May 1929

Location: chez M. Schlosser, Cugnon-Mortehan, Semois, Belgium.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

News Related to Crowley:

   - Hamilton Evening Journal

Current Events:

   - The first regularly scheduled television broadcasts (3 nights per week).

Monday, 13 May 1929

Location: chez M. Schlosser, Cugnon-Mortehan, Semois, Belgium.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

News Related to Crowley:

   - San Antonio Light

Tuesday, 14 May 1929

Location: Hotel Metropole, Brussels, Belgium.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Karl Germer

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Wednesday, 15 May 1929

Location: Hotel Metropole, Brussels, Belgium.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Israel Regardie

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   - Crowley to Montgomery Evans

Thursday, 16 May 1929

Location: Hotel Metropole, Brussels, Belgium.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Germer

Friday, 17 May 1929

Location: Hotel Metropole, Brussels, Belgium.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Wilfred Talbot Smith

News Related to Crowley:

   - Argus Leader

Sunday, 19 May 1929

Location: Hotel Metropole, Brussels, Belgium. [271]

News Related to Crowley:

   - Denver Post

   - Detroit Free Press

   - Miami News

   - Ogden Standard Examiner

   - Orlando Sentinel

   - Philadelphia Inquirer

   - San Diego Union

   - Tacoma Ledger

Monday, 20 May 1929

Location: Hotel Metropole, Brussels, Belgium.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Lecram Press

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

News Related to Crowley:

   - Johnson City Staff-News

Tuesday, 21 May 1929

Location: Hotel Metropole, Brussels, Belgium.

Current Events:

   - Composer, Sergei Prokoviev's ballet Prodigal Son premieres in Paris.

Thursday, 23 May 1929

Location: Hotel Metropole, Brussels, Belgium.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Lecram Press

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Friday, 24 May 1929

Location: Hotel Metropole, Brussels, Belgium.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Saturday, 25 May 1929

Location: Hotel Metropole, Brussels, Belgium.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

News Related to Crowley:

   - Long Island Daily Press

Sunday, 26 May 1929

Location: Hotel Metropole, Brussels, Belgium.

News Related to Crowley:

   - Fresno Bee

   - Star Tribune

Tuesday, 28 May 1929

Diary Entries:

  - Aleister Crowley

Location: Hotel Metropole, Brussels, Belgium.

- Crowley conducts a magical sexual operation. [233]

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerard Aumont

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Current Events:

   - The first all color talking picture On With the Show is exhibited in New York City.

Thursday, 30 May 1929

Location: Hotel Metropole, Brussels, Belgium.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Friday, 31 May 1929

Location: Hotel Metropole, Brussels, Belgium.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   - Wilfred T. Smith to Crowley

—  June  —

Saturday, 1 June 1929

Location: Hotel Metropole, Brussels, Belgium.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Monday, 3 June 1929

Location: Hotel Metropole, Brussels, Belgium.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Wednesday, 5 June 1929

Location: Hotel Metropole, Brussels, Belgium.

Current Events:

   - Ramsay McDonald becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Thursday, 6 June 1929

Location: Hotel Metropole, Brussels, Belgium.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Friday, 7 June 1929

Location: Hotel Metropole, Brussels, Belgium.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Jane Wolfe

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Current Events:

   - Vatican City becomes a sovereign state.

Sunday, 9 June 1929

Location: The Duke's Hotel, 35, St. James' Place, London, S.W.1. [271]

News Related to Crowley:

   - Sunday Oregonian

Current Events:

   - Wilfred Talbot Smith is 44 years old.

Tuesday, 11 June 1929

Diary Entries:

  - Aleister Crowley

Location: The Duke's Hotel, 35, St. James' Place, London, S.W.1.

- Crowley meets Gerald Yorke and Lieutenant Colonel John Carter at 7:20 p.m. outside the Langham Hotel and they all go to dinner. [56], [233]

Wednesday, 12 June 1929

Location: The Duke's Hotel, 35, St. James' Place, London, S.W.1.

Correspondence:

   - Lieutenant Colonel John Carter to Gerald Yorke

circa mid June 1929

Location: The Duke's Hotel, 35, St. James' Place, London, S.W.1.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Israel Regardie

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Tuesday, 18 June 1929

Location: The Duke's Hotel, 35, St. James' Place, London, S.W.1.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Louis Wilkinson

Thursday, 20 June 1929

Location: The Duke's Hotel, 35, St. James' Place, London, S.W.1.

News Related to Crowley:

   - Daily Mirror

Friday, 21 June 1929

Location: The Duke's Hotel, 35, St. James' Place, London, S.W.1.

Current Events:

   - The Summer Solstice.

Saturday, 22 June 1929

Location: The Duke's Hotel, 35, St. James' Place, London, S.W.1.

News Related to Crowley:

   - Auckland Star

   - John Bull

Tuesday, 25 June 1929

Location: Georgian House, Bury Str, St. James S.W.1. [271]

- The Daily Mirror publishes a review of Betty May's book Tiger Woman.

News Related to Crowley:

   - Daily Mirror

Thursday, 27 June 1929

Location: Georgian House, Bury Str, St. James S.W.1. 

- The Aberdeen Press and Journal publishes a review of Betty May's book Tiger Woman.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Louis Wilkinson

News Related to Crowley:

   - Aberdeen Press and Journal

Current Events:

   - The first color television demonstration is performed by Bell Laboratories in New York City.

Friday 28 June 1929

Diary Entries:

  - Aleister Crowley

Location: Georgian House, Bury Str, St. James S.W.1.

- Crowley meets for the second time with P.R. Stephensen, receives a £50 advance for royalties on The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, and is signed on as an author to the publisher Mandrake Press. [27]

Saturday, 29 June 1929

Location: Georgian House, Bury Str, St. James S.W.1.

News Related to Crowley:

   - Otago Daily Times

Sunday, 30 June 1929

Location: Georgian House, Bury Str, St. James S.W.1.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

News Related to Crowley:

   - Illinois State Journal

   - Times

—  July  —

Monday, 1 July 1929

Location: Georgian House, Bury Str, St. James S.W.1.  

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Louis Wilkinson

Tuesday, 2 July 1929

Location: Georgian House, Bury Street, St. James S.W.1.

- Crowley attends a party given by Nancy Cunard. [233]

Wednesday, 3 July 1929

Location: Georgian House, Bury Street, St. James S.W.1.

- The Yorkshire Post publishes a review of Betty May's Tiger Woman.

News Related to Crowley:

   - Yorkshire Post

Thursday, 4 July 1929

Location: Georgian House, Bury Street, St. James S.W.1.

- Karl and Cora Germer return to Berlin. [56]

- Crowley has Gerald Yorke to dinner with Wyn Henderson, Aquila Press publisher. [233]

Friday, 5 July 1929

Diary Entries:

  - Aleister Crowley

Location: Georgian House, Bury Street, St. James S.W.1.  

- Crowley has dinner with Montague Summers calling it "the most amusing evening I have spent in decades." [287]

Tuesday, 9 July 1929

Location: Georgian House, Bury Street, St. James S.W.1.  

News Related to Crowley:

   - Daily Express

Wednesday, 10 July 1929

Location: Georgian House, Bury Street, St. James S.W.1.  

- Crowley travels via Antwerp to Brussels to meet 'O'Bryne'. [233]

Thursday, 11 July 1929

News Related to Crowley:

   - Patriot

Saturday, 13 July 1929

Location: 24 Chester Row, S.W.1.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Louis Wilkinson

News Related to Crowley:

   - John Bull

Monday, 15 July 1929

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   - Crowley to Unknown Female

News Related to Crowley:

   - Evening Star

Tuesday, 16 July 1929

Location: Georgian House, Bury Street, St. James S.W.1.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

Thursday, 18 July 1929

Diary Entries:

  - Aleister Crowley

Location: Georgian House, Bury Street, St. James S.W.1.

Friday, 19 July 1929

Location: Georgian House, Bury Street, St. James S.W.1. [271]

- Crowley receives a telegram from Maria de Miramar telling him that she and Israel Regardie were forced to leave Brussels. [56]

Saturday, 20 July 1929

Location: Georgian House, Bury Street, St. James S.W.1. [271]

- Karl and Cora Germer meet Maria de Miramar and take her to Leipzig where she stays with Martha Küntzel. [56]

Monday, 22 July 1929

Location: Georgian House, Bury Street, St. James S.W.1.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Vice-Consul

Tuesday, 23 July 1929

Location: Georgian House, Bury Street, St. James S.W.1.

- Crowley and Maria de Miramar apply in London for a Registrar's Certificate and are married in Leipzig Germany on 16 August. [269]

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

News Related to Crowley:

   - Lake Wakatip Mail

Current Events:

   - Rose Kelly is 55 years old.

Wednesday, 24 July 1929

Location: Georgian House, Bury Street, St. James S.W.1.

- Crowley signs a power of attorney allowing Gerald Yorke to conduct business for him. [56]

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   - William Lee to Crowley

   - Crowley to Unknown Correspondent

News Related to Crowley:

   - Civil and Military Gazette

Sunday, 28 July 1929

Location: Leipzig, Germany, Hotel Astoria.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Montgomery Evans

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   - Crowley to Unknown Correspondent

Monday, 29 July 1929

Location: Leipzig, Germany, Hotel Astoria.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

   - Crowley to Marriage Registrar

Tuesday, 30 July 1929

Location: Leipzig, Germany, Hotel Astoria.

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Unknown Correspondent

Wednesday, 31 July 1929

Location: Leipzig, Germany, Hotel Astoria.

- Crowley and Maria de Miramar travel to Dresden, Germany. [105]

Correspondence:

   - Crowley to Edward Titus

   - Crowley to Gerald Yorke

—  August  —

Thursday, 1 August 1929