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.

15th November 1932

"LAUGHING TORSO"

Dear Sadleir,

Thanks for your letter of the 12th. I have returned the letter to [Guy] Boys.

I hear this morning that Miss Hamnett's defence is delivered. If so [Martin] O'Connor [Solicitor for Nina Hamnett] seems to have forgotten their promise to let me see it in draft but I hope to get it to-morrow and we must then consider at once the lines of Constable's defence.

Yours sincerely,

Charles S.J. Harper

Michael Sadleir, Esq.,

10 & 12, Orange Street,

Leicester Square,

W.C.2.

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