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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Taylor
[Undated: circa May 1913]
My dear Taylor,
Your letter 1 May is to hand. Why do I want Mr. Eisenthel's money? Why do I want to see him in person? It seems to me that it is perfectly clear that the money entrusted to him has been misapplied. I do not know whether it is embezzlement or some other name, but it appears to me a point of what I may call natural law that he can be compelled to give of the way he spent the money and if it has not been spent in the way for which he received it, a crime has been committed. I consider that to accept any proposition whatever for payment, now we know that the money has been stolen, would be to make oneself an accomplice. If you concur, please take the necessary steps. My feelings in the matter is dictated by the fact that I feel it a public duty as an author to put a stop to this particular kind of swindle which is constantly being worked on unknown authors, and secondly because I induced two friends of mine to invest their own money in the scheme.
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