2024-04-20

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The Battle at Blythe Road

[36 Blythe Rd, London W14 0HA, UK as it appeared June 2022]

On April 19, 1900, the so-called Battle at Blythe Road, a “theatrical farce” occurred between Aleister Crowley and some members of Isis Urania Temple of the London location of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, including William Butler Yeats and E A Hunter.

Early Thursday morning, Mr. Yeats and I called on Mr Wilkinson, [the landlord at 36 Blythe Road], and asked him how it was that he had allowed…

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