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Correspondence from Michael Sadleir [Constable & Co., Publishers of Laughing Torso] to Charles Harper [Waterhouse & Co., Solicitors for Constable & Co.]
[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.]
March 29th 1933
Dear Harper,
I did not acknowledge your letter of March 27th with the copy of particulars because there was no alteration which I could suggest and I thought my letter could wait until I got to London today.
It is good news that we may hear nothing more of the matter but I confess I should like to be able to know definitively whether we are going to or not. Nina Hamnett telephones me about 10 days ago to the effect that Crowley was insistently in pursuit of her; that the lady who was financing his residence at the Park Lane Hotel had herself been thrown out for bruising the moral susceptibilities of the management, and that consequently he was badly in need of further support.
She was of the opinion that he was trying to get her to urge all of us to settle, and that she did not believe his expectations were more than very moderate.
This is, of course, as maybe
Yours sincerely,
C.J.S. Harper Esq., 10-12 Bishopsgate, E.C.2.
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