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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to The Lecram Press
May 20th 1929
The Lecram Press, 26, Rue d'Hautpul, Paris, XIX e
Dear Mr. Estieu:
I am in receipt of your letter of May 18th.
You are quite at liberty to deny the statements contained in my letter. I may add that I held you in the highest honour for your manly independence in going on to deny the statements contained in your own.
For example. In your first paragraph you say "This is the first intimation we have had from you as to your present location." I had a prolonged interview with your representative, Mr. Cope [Stuart R. Cope], on the 16th of April, in the course of which I gave him my present address. Also, on page 2 of your letter, fourth paragraph, you state "as you are aware, we shipped to New York, etc. . . . . . ." I became aware of this fact by the medium of a telegram addressed to me at this hotel.
I see no present reason to take exception to any of the statements contained in your six numbered paragraphs.
I have not received the proofs of the second volume [of Magick in Theory and Practice], but I have no doubt that this is a delay in the post owing to the holidays.
Please note very carefully the following statement. As long as you can deliver copies of the complete text, as apart from the appendices, we shall be in a position to end out copies for review, which is the important point as regards the sale.
As far as I can judge from your figures, the amount of money you have already received should be sufficient to cover these two sections.
In the meantime I have cabled to my agent in New York as follows: "Fifty subscriptions ensure delivery whole edition complete minimum delay. Work proceeding. Second section almost ready." I have no doubt that within a few days the balance of the money due for the whole four sections will be at your disposal. But this depends to a certain extent on your good will in issuing the second part, because my agent in New York writes to me explaining that the booksellers in New York are exactly in the same position as those whom you have approached in Paris.
I think there should be no further difficulty with regard to this whole matter.
I shall return to you the proofs within twenty four hours of my receiving them.
Yours faithfully,
Sir Aleister Crowley
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