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Rolling Stone Orchard
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Chipping Campden
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Sunday May 11th 1941
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My dear Aleister,
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
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In reply to yours.
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Ala's address is
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Mrs. Ala Storey
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c/o Miss Elizabeth Hudson
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120 East 39th Street
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New York
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I will telegraph to her. Will you write to Germer.
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I return your letter.
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The Winged Beetle is at Felix Cross'. I will ask him to post it
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on first thing on Monday.
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Now about the Exhibition.
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Mercury is evidently wishing to hold it--
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Nicholson, Venn High Street Oxford have offered me their
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Gallery. I have taken it & am going there on Monday to see them.
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I found a most superb leaflet advertising an illuminated book
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called the Haggadah selling at [L]100 & brought out by the
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Beaconsfield Press. I was so impressed by it that I went to London
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to see them & found the work was done by the Sun Engraving Co. who
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were able & wishful to print the cards and the book, but at a
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price!!!!
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Since then I have received many suggestions, impossible to
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write to you such vague ideas, but the Exhibition may help the cards
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to sell or subscribers may be found to finance the publication.
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Now then, I must come & see you, there are matters that I must
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discuss with you, not write them.
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I have had an invitation printed for the General Public, just a
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card which is at the printers (I have put no name for the artist, I
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don't want to, something informs me that I am lost if I take credit
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or publicity in designing the cards as an artist). Please understand
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this, no one else can.
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The catalogue will be sent direct to you but it will be
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expensive & if we make more than 10% alterations in the proof, it
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will have to be paid for again.
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I have had a wrapper for the catalogue made by the Sun
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Engraving Co. This will be beautifully printed with the Magician
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reproduced perfectly as a card, the right size & engraved on it.
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This will be on the catalogues to be sent out to anyone likely to
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[be] & charged 2/6 for at the Show. The block for this was so dear
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that I had to have the Catalogue done more cleaply elsewhere.
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I have seen Houghton & I will tell you what he said.
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Please stay at Torquay. I shall be in London & Oxford till I
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come on to you & I can't stay with you, as I must come back & get on
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as you will see--I will telegraph but I expect to get to you on
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Wednesday evening, if I can collect the Catalogue proof & the 4
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princes by then.
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The alteration of Abracadabra (Charioteer) & the Taurus Disk
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card are complete.
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Please forgive this brief statement, it is because I know you
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are so lucid and logical that I can write & tell you I have taken
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such arbitrary action without consulting you as you will realize
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this was a moment to say "Snap!"
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Love is the law, love under will.
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Yours ever,
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Frieda Harris
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P.S. I have written to Michael to tell him the drawings are in the
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dug-out in the orchard & should anything happen to me, he has, in
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collaboration with you--the right to remove the drawings for the
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purpose of publishing them. The same applies to you as witness my
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name here.
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Frieda Harris
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Rolling Stone Orchard
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May 21st [1941]
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My dear Aleister,
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Love is the law, love under will.
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I am so sorry for all your troubles. We are both getting too
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excited & it attacks one in ones particular weakness, so I lose my
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head & you your breath. I am sending you [L]6: I don't know how but
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I will also try to wire it tomorrow.
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I have only just got your letters returned today after
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travelling from 11 A.M. to 7.30 P.M. Sitting in stations & huddling
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with savage soldiers & children in stuffy railway carriages. Nick
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was worth it & I had a view of a destroyer.
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But I called in at Oxford on the way home & wrote 20 letters
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with Ettinghausen. He is splendid and makes new suggestions every
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minute. Only we must tread very cautiously. It makes me nervous but
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I mean to do what I can to pull this off & how we will sit back if
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only we can interest a few people who will put up some money. That
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is the object of this show & we must act entirely for this so do
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trust me, I feel this is an election & I have my hand on the popular
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pulse & Horus is the candidate. I am working 16 hours a day,
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writing, & thinking & I go to Oxford on Monday to meet the Vogue
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representatives & I hope a few of the Press & try to rope some in.
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Please forgive me if I do not write as often as you expect. I
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am really working at high pressure, there is a lot of social smiling
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to be done & keeping people in a good temper, the travelling to &
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fro is difficult & I write all the time I am in the train if I have
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time.
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It is now 11 P.M. Goodnight.
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Probably will be able to send you picture reproduction in a few
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days.
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Catalogue not come through yet.
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Love is the law, love under will.
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Frieda
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[P.S.] Thank you so much for saying the last three years have been
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good. I thank you too, you know I do. Have you got enough cards? I
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sent you some more but I shall have to get more printed if you do.
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They are disappearing [...] good!
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Rolling Stone Orchard
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Chipping Campden
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May 26th 1941
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My Dear Aleister--
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
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I have just received your letter. It is a bit of a bomb that
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you are evicted. So difficult & tiring for you.
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Now then--you have always asked me to tell you the truth & I am
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writing a truth to you which I find difficult to convey delicately
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but I must do so.
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The opposition against you in Oxford is very strong. My
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business is to get money to publish these cards if possible & this
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is nearly impossible in the present war-condition. I have been
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successful thro using what influence I possess in getting at people
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with money to come & see the Exhibition. This is using my social
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position foully. If they suspected that the cards were inspired by
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the Arch Magician of Black Magic (what do they mean?) they would
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withdraw their patronage. I have had this conveyed to me politely &
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impolitely. Therefore if you come to the Private View or show up in
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any prominence this attempt to launch the cards is doomed & all the
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work & money lost. Can you be so large-minded & detached as to keep
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away until the thing is launched--If you court notoriety, it is sure
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to appear ultimately that you are the source because so many people
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know it & I am really afraid of the avalanche which will fall on me.
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I am trying to keep out too because I am bored by occult
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people, loathe commercialism, do not want fame or notoriety, do not
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want money, but yearn, long, desire for solitude. Any financial
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success will be yours. I have had my reward in the work.
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Now my honoured, esteemed colleague, reply to me & trust me--
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Love is the law, love under will.
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Yours really troubled
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Frieda Harris
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[P.S.] The proofs have not turned up yet in spite of telegrams &
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letters. I enclose a letter from Gunn. Not propitious also.
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