come to England and compel full redress of this 
abominable injustice. 
In June of this year, I placed a statement of 
the case before Mr. James Douglas, the literary 
editor of the Sunday Express, who had initiated 
this campaign of calumny by printing, under his 
own name, a grossly vituperative review of Mr. 
Crowley’s novel “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”.  
His article misrepresented the moral purpose 
of that work, as recognised in numerous reviews 
of it by men of letters in reputable journals : 
it was an orgie of salacity and, in essence, 
a lie. 
I placed a copy of this statement before the 
editorial board of the Sunday Express, pointing 
out that the assertion that Mr. Crowley had 
served a prison sentence (in America or else-
where, whether for the crime alleged or for any 
other offence) was demonstrably untrue, and 
asking simply for the full and frank withdrawal 
of that particular lie. 
At the same time I sent you privately a full 
statement, supported by documents, not only 
refuting your editor’s calumnies, but containing 
sufficient positive truth concerning Mr. Crowley’s 
life and work to prove that the case put forward 
by the Sunday Express was as false in the spirit 
as in the letter. 
I did everything I could to ensure that these 
representations should come to your personal 
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