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Aleister Crowley Diary Entry Friday, 22 December 1933
Pearl [Pearl Brooksmith] and I to 11 Cavendish Court Wigmore St. with John.
Conference in P.M. [George] Mather[1] and ? any further action.
Cleaning up.
1—Crowley paid £5 to George Mather for five letters stolen by Captain Eddie Cruze from Betty May to be used to discredit her testimony in Crowley's libel case against Nina Hamnett and her book Laughing Torso. Crowley was later arrested on 21 June 1934 and eventually tried and found guilty on 25 July 1934 for being in possession of stolen letters.
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