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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.]
February 6th 1934
Dear Harper,
Many thanks for your letter of February 5th about the brutalisation of WHITE STAINS.
If there is any danger of volumes taken into court being impounded by the judge I am afraid I must beg you not to allow the Banned Lecture to be among the volumes. I had not realized that there was this risk or otherwise I should not have bothered you as obviously if it is any good to us we shall want it in court, whereas, if we cannot take it into court it is ipso facto no use to us.
So perhaps it would be better for the thing to come back as soon as you have just glanced through it.
Yours sincerely,
C.J.S. Harper Esq., Messrs. Waterhouse & Co., 10/12 Bishopsgate, E.C.2.
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