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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.
20th June 1933
CROWLEY
My dear Kyllmann,
In my yesterday's letter I said I would report to you the state of the list. I find that there are at present no less than 236 special jury cases waiting to be tried and probably there will be a few more entered before Crowley's if, as I expect, his case is entered in the Special Jury list.
Now this makes it practically impossible that the case should be reached before the Long Vacation or even much before Christmas, and that being so I am not so sure that it is policy to postpone the reissue of "Laughing Torso". It would be safer to do so but other considerations may outweigh this.
I do not know how Crowley is going to last financially until his case comes on.
Yours sincerely,
Charles S. J. Harper
Otto Kyllmann, Esq., 10 & 12, Orange Street, Leicester Square, W.C.2.
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