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Correspondence from Constable & Co., Ltd. [Publishers of Laughing Torso] to C. Somerford
[Correspondence concerning Constable & Co.'s preparation for the libel suit brought by Aleister Crowley against Nina Hamnett and the publication of her book Laughing Torso.]
Personal and Private
C. Somerford Esq., 16, Dryden Chambers, 119 Oxford Street, W.1.
September 28 1932
Dear Sir,
I understand from Mr. Percy Muir that you have kindly offered a book to borrow from Compton Mackenzie a copy of a book entitled WHITE STAINS by Aleister Crowley. As it might well be of great assistance to have a copy of this book available, we should be greatly obliged if you can contrive to get hold of it.
It is important that no names be mentioned in this transaction. Otherwise I could write to Mackenzie myself, although I am not likely to know his movements as you are. You can at any rate assure him that the greatest care will be taken of the book and no harm come to it.
Yours truly,
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