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Correspondence from Annie Horniman to William Peck[1]
25 December 1896.
In March [1896] Mr. Mathers [MacGregor Mathers] came to London and called upon me. He told me that he had leisure for politics but none for the arrears of work at 62 [Oakley Square] . In May in your presence Mr. Brodie-Innes boasted to me that he was in continual correspondence with Mr. Mathers on political matters, not on Order business. At the end of May Mrs. Brodie-Innes told me that Mr. Mathers was not coming to the Corpus Christi meeting because of politics. 1 The feeling that my honour as an upright person was being injured by supporting a political movement of which I did not approve, grew too strong to be borne. In June I wrote to Paris and said that the payment in July (£75) would be the last. Both wrote to me courteous answers. In July a letter was sent to Mrs. Kennedy [Florence Kennedy—Volo] and Mrs. Macrae [Cecilia Macrae—Vincit Qui Se Vincit] containing 13 charges against the Adepti but 11 were personal to me. In September I resigned my office of Sub Prae[monstratrix of the Isis-Urania Temple] and was rudely answered.
1—William Peck (1862 - 1925) was a Scottish astronomer and scientific instrument maker as well was a member of the Golden Dawn.
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