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Correspondence from Vern C. Haskins to Aleister Crowley
212 No. New Hampshire Los Angeles, Calif.
April 24 1929
Dear Mr. Crowley,
Mr. Smith [Wilfred Talbot Smith] has very kindly allowed me the privilege of studying some of your poetical works, and being interested in musical composition, I have set two of them to music.
These songs have been sung on concert programs with considerable success, and I believe that if they were published, they would meet with a ready response in the public's musical taste.
The two lyrics I have used are Song of Charicles and Song of Orpheus, beginning respectively with lines "Not these do I fear" and "Within the forest gloom."
May I have your permission to use these songs for publication.
Very sincerely yours,
Mr. Vern C. Haskins
[note in the hand of Crowley:] Agreed on 50-50 basis—Shouldn't we have a regular form of contract to send such people.
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