Correspondence from Charles Harper [Waterhouse & Co., Solicitors for Constable & Co.]

to

Otto Kyllmann [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.

 

 

19th January 1933

 

CROWLEY

 

My dear Kyllmann,

 

I have received your letter of yesterday from the Club and also this morning "White Stains".

     

I see it is anonymous and that the Editor says it is intended for the eyes of mental pathologists alone. So he will have to justify it as a scientific work.

     

Being anonymous we have got to prove that it was written by Crowley.

 

Yours very sincerely,

 

Charles S. J. Harper

 

 

 

BY HAND

Otto Kyllmann, Esq.,

10 & 12, Orange Street,

Leicester Square,

W.C.2.

 

 

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