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Correspondence from John Quinn to Wieland & Co.
Messrs. Wieland & Co. 33 Avenue Studios (76 Fulham Road), South Kensington, S.W. London, England
August 20, 1913.
Dear Sirs:
This is to acknowledge the receipt of yours of the 13th.
I am going away for a rest to the mountains for a month.
I am obliged by your promise to send me the New Year's Card and the other two books referred to. I am also obliged by your promise that you will send me the reproduction of Mr. John’s [Augustus John] drawing of Mr. Crowley very shortly.
As to the other three books, “White Stains”, “The Scented Garden” and “The World's Tragedy”, I should of course like to have them. I know nothing about their contents. I shouldn’t like to have them gobbled up in the mail. But books that are sent by registered mail to me are very seldom opened. I am not a dealer. But I don’t want to have any law question raised. You have a perfect right to send them to me by mail, no matter what their contents, and I have a perfect right to receive them. The United States law forbids the use of the mail for sending immoral books or for immoral purposes. But I don’t think that applies to a bibliophile like myself, who merely wants an author’s complete works and who doesn’t import them for re-sale. I dictated my letter to be on the safe side.
Yours very truly,
John Quinn
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