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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.
2nd January 1934
CROWLEY
My dear Kyllmann,
I shall have to deliver the briefs to counsel next week and pay our own and also through O'Connors, the solicitors for Nina Hamnett, Mr. Martin O'Connor's brief fee as already arranged.
I do not expect to be able to get Hilbery's clerk to accept a lower fee on his brief than 75 guineas. Then his junior Lilley is entitled to two-thirds of that or 50 guineas and Martin O'Connor will want the same as Lilley and there will be in addition a nominal fee to Hilbery as leader to Martin O'Connor. Fees are payable also to the clerks of the counsel, a small percentage but amounting to several pounds and finally there are consultation fees.
So I ought to have from you a cheque for £200.
Yours sincerely,
Charles S. J. Harper
PERSONAL Otto Kyllmann, Esq., 10 & 12, Orange Street, Leicester Square, W.C.2.
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