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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Saturday, 7 January 1933
Got Bill [Bertha Busch] off to Brighton.
Discovered libel at 23 Praed St. Placard that my first novel had been banned.[1]
Bill rang up late—Norah is playing the bitch. Bill wants to come back. She rang up that sex-crazy old dope-addict and spilt the beans! Then the fat old brothel-keeper rang me up after 12, and started slanders against Bill—the foulest insults. I cut off: so she went on raving at the telephone clerk!
1—[While walking down Praed Street in London Crowley stopped to look in the window of a bookshop and saw a copy of his book Moonchild with a sign saying "Aleister Crowley's first novel The Diary of a Drug Fiend was withdrawn from circulation after an attack in the sensational press." Crowley sued the bookseller for libel and was awarded £50 in damages on 10 May 1933.] [250]
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