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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.
25th May 1933
CROWLEY
Dear Kyllmann,
The time within which Crowley is allowed by the Court after Nina Hamnett's particulars have been delivered to him to enter the action for trial expires just after Whitsun. We cannot move before then but after then, assuming, as I think we may, that Crowley has not set the action down, we can move to dismiss it. As I have mentioned in a desperate letter I am going away for a fortnight and so propose to let matters stand until after my return, by which time the Courts will be open again and we can consider the question of moving to dismiss. I say "consider" because sometimes it is better to let sleeping dogs lie, as the saying is. On the other hand, we could enter it in the list ourselves, bring it on, Crowley might not be there, and you would get a profitable advertisement of the book.
This action has been very expensive, the costs and disbursements to the end of March last amounting to over £200 of which we have had from you £40.
As I am writing I take the opportunity to enclose my firm's charges in respect of "Schoolmasters All" amounting to £7.7.0.
Yours very sincerely,
Charles S. J. Harper
Otto Kyllmann, Esq., 10 & 12, Orange Street, Leicester Square, W.C.2.
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