CROWLEY ALEISTER Small archive of 6 Autograph Letters Signed

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CROWLEY, ALEISTER. Small archive of 6 Autograph Letters Signed, to writer and publisher Holbrook Jackson, sending stories [not present], daring him to publish them, arranging meetings, entreating for financial help, inviting him to visit in Paris, proposing a business deal, praising [George Bernard] Shaw. Together 12 pages, 4to or 12mo; condition generally good. (MRS) Vp, vd

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[London], 24 April 1908: "I am enclosing you 3 short stories . . . . Further, herewith my Ox in a Teacup novel, which would make a good serial. If you dared. I think you would dare; for the 'daring' is not of the Shaw-Havelock Ellis type, but of the Elinor Glyn-Hall Caine type. . . ."
[London], July 15 [1934?]: ". . . Constable & Co ask for security for costs in my appeal, which . . . they are convinced that I am certain to win. Their only hope has been to wear me down financially . . . . I cannot sell my stuff to newspapers and publishers while the case is still undecided. . . .
"It is really a matter of life and death, and not for me alone. Do try to find a way to carry me over. . . ."
Paris, nd: ". . . [W]ould not the anarchist community of the Quartier Montparnasse be more restful than the terrible dullness of English longeriste? I find it so. Here everything is free, from thought to experimental eugenics. . . .
"I have just done a kind of fairy play about Death, and our exhausted & dissatisfied. . . ."
[London], nd: "I read your admirable book on Shaw . . . but I cannot admit that Shaw is such an ass as you make out! It seems to me that you praise him for all his pedantries and childishness, while you ignore his real virtues. Which are many. . . ."