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Correspondence from Charles Harper [Waterhouse & Co., Solicitors for Constable & Co.] to Michael Sadleir [Constable & Co., Publishers of Laughing Torso]
[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.]
Waterhouse & Co. Solicitors 10 & 12 Bishopsgate, London, E.C.2.
31st October 1932
"LAUGHING TORSO"
Dear Sadleir,
Thanks for yours of the 29th.
A man whose name I gathered to be Dary [Elliot S. Darby] rang me up on the 26th and said he knew you, that he had been researching in the British Museum Library and that there was a copy of GILLE de RAIS [The Banned Lecture] there. He did not mention Booth Clibbon [Arthur Booth-Clibborn].
Your suggestion is best—I will hand the information on casually to [Martin] O'Connor [solicitor for Nina Hamnett].
A man who is bona fide in a hurry to stop a libel will deliver his statement of claim immediately after the summons for directions but Crowley has done nothing and the weeks go by. I am beginning to doubt whether we shall hear any more of it.
Yours sincerely,
Charles S.J. Harper
Michael Sadleir, Esq., 10 & 12 Orange Street, Leicester Square, W.C.2.
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