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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Max Schneider
[EXTRACT]
[12 August 1924]
About this time last year a friend of mine Mr. N. Hall took me to a bookshop in Paris where he purchased a copy of The Star & the Garter bound in morocco. This copy was indistinguishable, to my inspection, from a copy belonging to the collection of Rariora, valued at 17,000 dollars, which I left with Frater Achad [Charles Stansfeld Jones] to be sold intact at that price. I wrote asking if he could account for the fact and he denied that the collection had been touched. This matter must be investigated.
More generally, I would like you, if you will, to take over from Frater Achad the custody of
1. The stock of Rariora;
2. The stock of other works (Equinox's, Konx Om Pax, etc.) for sale at advertised prices in the ordinary way. I do not know how much of this has been sold, what there is still remaining, or what the proceeds have been; for Achad has always evaded, on one pretext or another, my repeated questions for a business account. He must be forced to give one.
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