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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 appeal to 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.
4th August 1934
CROWLEY
My dear Kyllmann,
As Crowley has paid the £100 into Court for security for costs of the appeal that will now go on and until it is disposed of we cannot usefully take any steps to enforce payment of the costs up to and including the trial or make him bankrupt because it is possible—only I hope in theory—that a new trial might be ordered.
You have told me that you would like to know how costs stand and I am sending you the following figures.
The disbursements, as distinguished from my firm's charges, have amounted to £695.11.8 of which the details are as follows:—
I have not dealt here with our own charges which were allowed on taxation at £327.8.9. This is the amount recoverable from Crowley and not the full amount of our charges but I would like to leave the adjustment of that question for a time. What I am suggesting is that we might have now the £155.11.8. as we are out of pocket to that extent.
Yours sincerely,
Charles S. J. Harper
PERSONAL Otto Kyllmann, Esq., 10 & 12, Orange Street, Leicester Square, W.C.2.
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