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Correspondence from Frank Harris to Aleister Crowley
[In response to Norman Mudd's An Open Letter to Lord Beaverbrook.]
circa September 1924
My dear Crowley,
I need hardly assure you of my wish to help you, but I am nearly powerless. If Lord Beaverbrook had brought out such a libel on me, I'd rejoice and would find, I am sure, some powerful English solicitor who'd go halves with me and make this Lordship pay and pay heavily.
I don't know what you've done or what they'll say you've done; but there's a way of confining them rigorously to proving their allegation without your needing to go into the box. There should be £10,000 in such a libel action. Why don't you put Mudd [Norman Mudd] on to find out exactly? If I were you, I'd study every view of the case dispassionately and then give Beaverbrook Hell! As it is I'm here correcting a second vol. of My Life that no one wants and trying to find an English publisher for my Oscar Wilde book which made me a small fortune in USA. But no English bidders alas!
Yours ever,
Frank Harris
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