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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Meisenbach Riffarth & Co.
Ivy Cottage, Knockholt, Kent.
November 12th, 1929.
Meisenbach Riffarth & Co., Friedrich List Strasse 11, Leipzig.
Gentlemen:
The translation of a letter from yourselves has just reached me. I beg to inform you that you never had any "Female Act", or whatever you impertinently choose to call it. I, acting as the agent of Mr. Edward Goldston, gave you the portrait of a lady to reproduce in lithography to his order.
I may point out to you that the lithography have never been ordered. All that we have had were four proofs, and you were asked to quote, as per those proofs, per hundred.
You may take the view that Mr. Goldston is acting in a cowardly and dishonourble manner and I hold no brief for him. But you have no right whatever to worry Miss Küntzel [Martha Küntzel] who has never had anything to do with the business, except that she had the kindness to interpret between myself and your representative.
I approached you on direct instructions from Mr. Goldston, and your business is entirely with him and not with anybody else. But you cannot expect Mr. Goldston to pay any money until he has given you an order for a definite number of lithographs.
No agreement was ever made for immediate payment and you cannot produce any such document.
Your letter is, therefore, a tissue of misunderstandings and misstatements.
Yours faithfully,
E. A. Crowley
EAC / ir [Israel Regardie]
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