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1924 · PDF PAGE 15

An Open Letter to Lord Beaverbook

… publish to the whole world filthy libels against the personal virtue of noble women. A Baron of England, accessory after the fact to so foul and mean a crime ? I have the honour to be, Your Lordship’s obedient servant, Norman MUDD, M.A., Cambridge : sometime Scholar of Trinity College. Late Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, Grey University College, South Africa. 37a Tressilian Road, Brockley, London, S.E.4, August, 1924. — 15 —

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1924 · PDF PAGE 14

An Open Letter to Lord Beaverbook

12. Your editor—merely for the purpose of striking a foul blow at Mr. Crowley—has singled out from among his colleagues three ladies who have been noble and unselfish enough to renounce their professional careers in order to help in his work. These ladies are not British subjects, but your editor has identified them quite clearly to their professional, family, and private circles in England and America. He has been vile enough to accuse them, without one conceivable atom of justification, of practising public prostitution in foreign cities. “Wh…

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1924 · PDF PAGE 6

An Open Letter to Lord Beaverbook

…ism. The present case shows how a man of letters, unprotected by this right of reply, can be sub- jected by a newspaper editor to public foul-play of the most atrocious and murderous kind. 5. At the beginning of July 1922—while Mr. Crowley was still living in London, and months before this campaign of lies was mooted— he signed a contract with his publishers for the writing and production of his autobiography. This was commenced in London, and was well under way, when at the end of October, Mr. Crowley left England for his home in Sicily. A for…

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1924 · PDF PAGE 4

An Open Letter to Lord Beaverbook

…tion to ascertain the truth in this matter, and to compel your editor to publish it in such a way as to redress the wrong wrought by his foul lie. 4. His plea that, unless his statements had all been correct, Mr. Crowley would have sued the paper for libel immediately, is a base and cynical attempt to ignore the evident disabilities of every kind which beset the absentee, the poor — 4 —

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