Crowley's Last Days
There is break in the Frieda Harris - Aleister Crowley letters after the exhibition in July 1942, but she was in close contact with him, particularly towards the end of his life, and visited him frequently. A pencil sketch she made of Crowley on his deathbed still survives.
After Crowley's death she wrote to Frederic Mellinger, an O.T.O. member in Germany, on 7 December 1947:
He was well taken care of. I made him have a nurse about 3 months ago as he was dirty & neglected & he had Watson who was most devoted & the Symonds were as nice as they knew how to be. At the last Mrs. McAlpine & the boy were there. I saw him the day he died, but he did not recognize me. I think Mrs. McAlpine was with him but she says there was no struggle, just stopped breathing I shall miss him terribly An irreplaceable loss Love is the law, love under will Yours Sincerely Frieda Harris
She also corresponded with Gerald Gardner and Karl Germer, Crowley's successor as head of O.T.O., in an attempt to assist with the Order's structure in Europe, which had been thrown into some confusion after Crowley's death.
Frieda Harris and Louis Wilkinson were the executors of Crowley's Will.
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