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Correspondence from Robert Lund to Philip Kaplan
8503 Hartwell Street, Detroit 28, Michigan
June 30, 1960
Dear Phil:
If the following item is of interest to you, please let me have your bid on it:
The Sword of Song, paper cover edition. Front free endpaper has this note in Crowley's hand: "Copy 1st Edition / With original MS / notes by / Sir Gerald Kelly." Pages vii, 1, 4, 5, 9, 10, 14, 17, 18, 20, 25, 29, 33, 34 and 35 contain short comments, in pencil, in Kelley's hand. Pages 4, 20, 33 and 37 contain very brief notes, in pencil, by Crowley. Many pages loose at spine, numerous pages uncut. Crowley presented this work to Kelly and then reclaimed it after he and Kelly quarrelled.
This book belongs to me and has never been offered for sale. I guarantee its authenticity in every respect and will refund payment if I have misrepresented it in any way. If the book is of no interest to you, do not trouble to reply.
Thank you for your letter of several weeks ago offering to purchase the three-volume Collected Works and the manuscript of The Book of Lies, but I do not care to sell them at this time. I have had three offers for the material since it appeared at the Peabody exhibit in Baltimore, but I do not propose to part with it right now.
Regards,
Robert Lund
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