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Saturday, July 12th [n.y.]
Dear Aleister,
I am quite unable to find the O.T.O. papers. I saw them at
Richmond, I think, in London at Morton House. But I have repeatedlly
looked there for them, it is useless to ask anyone else to look for
me.
Today I have had an exhaustive & exhausting search in all my
papers here.
Can I have a fresh copy!
I enclose [L]4-4.
I think I am not sufficiently instructed to take such a
responsible job in U.S.A. I will do some work on it & you will
judge.
The Adjustment is being queer with me. She has, after all,
insisted on being Beardsley! Also Harlequin comes in & out of it so
I must have to submit. But why Harlequin? Is there any connection?
Also she won't sit down but stands on her toes just balanced. The
design-result is good. That blue is cobalt I take it. The
instruction says Blue-Blue green. Pale green Emerald. That Emerald
is a vile pigment in poster paints.
I like the idea of a weekly letter on the Chinese Yi. Also as
told to an idiot appeals to me & is frightfully good for you.
I feel I am on the move. The back of the Card will be done next
& the re-printing of mount.
What about the enlarged set of replicas. A big work but it can
be done.
I have sent you only 1 throw-out in order that you should not
become parcel-bound. You can have more.
I am so glad you are a bit better but I do think those bouts of
asthma must exhaust you.
The dentist at Stroud writes "Please let me have a pack of
those cards of which you show me the photographs. I can't get them
out of my mind." Which shows him!
Yours somewhat anxious about O.T.O. Papers
Frieda Harris
Dec. 11th [n.y.]
Dear Aleister,
Thank you for your letter I will reply later to that.
I am sending you a sample of the top of the surround of the
card as I have written "Swords" at the top. I find people cannot
tell Trumps from Swords or Cups from Disks so I propose to write
Swords, Cups, Disks, Wands, Trumps at the top. Owing to the black
out I think this particular sample Swords is too dark it should be
the same colour as the mount not to show so much. I may be able to
wash it down but I have to horde [sic] this mount as I can't get
any more--please return this one.
I have done as you suggested to the Swords. Thank you "Mr
Crowley". You were quite right.
Ever yours--
Frieda Harris
[P.S.] Tried again got it right by sponging only not quite the
texture I want--others will be better!
[n.d.]
Dear Aleister,
I have been struggling with a bad cold & the Lovers--the latter
begins to cheer up. I haven't decided whether I'll come back & brood
on the Fool or stay here. It depends on the crisis, the Austrian
Servants but I'd rather stay here.
Can you tell me where there are 92 elements according to the
Russian Mendelkeef (is it)? Also what do you know about Lilith. I
can't find out anything & believe I asked you before & you would not
attend to me. I can't make anything of the no 92. That is why I ask
you.
I hope you are all right.
Yours sincerely,
Frieda Harris
Cotswold House Hotel
Chipping Campden
Glos
Woolstaplers Hall
Chipping Campden
[n.d.]
Dear Aleister,
Please--I am working on the Fool & I've done the Lovers so do
not tartly say I am having a long holiday!
The caravan is a great success. Most cosey & so much easier
than a house. Your explanation of Lilith is not enough. She is a
piebald wench & not to be trusted but in some ways Eve is a Krugley
[?] Queen when compared with her.
I am glad the Falconer has caught your Hawk & that you are
happier.
I will struggle with the Fool. He does writhe about. I can't
see him. Has he got any children with him & is not his bag a
jester's balloon? That innocent gaiety asks for the brush of a saint
& my lines come out like treacle. I wish I could paint in crystals.
Yours sincerely,
Frieda Harris
[n.p., n.d.]
Dear Aleister,
I hope you are alright. I don't think you were at all lucid
about Lilith or the 100 years dead Russian however I hope you were
preoccupied with writing. I have been looking at Tao Teh King. Yes
it is an excellent book & like everything you write, only could have
been done by you & a most profound & lucid bit of thought. No
wonder you function so vilely on the living plane?
I am grappling with the Fool which continues to give me a gad
foot so that I can't walk except in a club-footed heavy way. Also
the caravan is fiercely cold & presents many obstacles. I have a
studio also fiercely cold & without any furniture except packing
cases, but that is a help. Directly the Fool is in a form to be
submitted to the Right Worshipable Master, I will return to the
Petrolitis in which we all endure.
Yours sincerely,
Frieda Harris
[n.p., n.d., mid-winter]
Dear Aleister,
I do hope it is going to come out, I am simply sweating. That
Fool won't stand still & I do hope it is going to be alright &
you'll be satisfied. I can't do it well enough--every sort of
obstacles, damp weather, intense cold, an impossible situation of
living in a caravan in mid-winter. I am more than duty [sic] but I
dare not leave as I must do this as well as I can without
interruption & I can hear the rumblings of a tumultuous world
through the apple trees. If only it is alright. It has got all the
symbols only I've never seen any traditional card like it & it has
gone so far from the little bearded man which it never was for it
appears to me as Christ & Budha [sic] & Harpo & Pierot [sic] &
Harlequin & the giant Pandah & every other foolish & adorable person
& or course I can't make a pastiche of all those tho I try & indeed
now I have forgotten how to spell.
Why haven't I got living fire which could weave musically
these beauties. I can't do it with pigment I want poetry & music &
light, not coloured chalks.
I do hope you're serious about this. You must be, you couldn't
have written Tao Teh King with yr. tongue in yr. cheek even with
your beastly cleverness & adroit subtlety.
Yours sincerely,
Frieda Harris
140 Picadilly
W.1.July 9 [1942]
Dear Kerman,
The Tarot is an Atlas of, and Guide Book to, the Universe. It
has been my daily study since Feb. '99, and my researches have cost
me several thousand pounds.
I have long determined to construct a pack embodying all the
new knowledge gained from Anthropology, Comparative Religion, & so
forth.
Lady Harris offered to execute the cards from my designs. It
was agreed that I should have a 2/3 share in the venture.
From my rough sketches & descriptions, under my continual
inspection, subject to my constant correction--I made her do some
cards over again 5, 6 even 8 times in one case--she made the set now
on show at the Berkeley Galleries. (There