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Correspondence from William Wynn Westcott to F.L. Gardner
18 March 1897.
Best thanks for your letter. I cannot be at home tomorrow evening as I have to meet Sub Spe [J.W. Brodie-Innes] and after that S.S.D.D. [Sapientia Sapienti Dono Data—Florence Farr] also but shall be pleased to see you on an early day next week. No news yet from the Chief, but he had my letter Tuesday morning [i.e., 16 March] .
I do not expect that he would give me the powers of a consulting physician to the Order's diseases now I have resigned, but we shall see. I have had sympathetic communications from L.O. [Levavi Oculos—Percy Bullock] and Shem [Shemeber—Pamela Carden Bullock], Vig [Vigilate—Helen Rand], Sub Spe and [Henry Pullen] Burry.
It seems to me that M.[MacGregor Mathers] might split up my duties into several offices, such as:
Reader of Minutes, Exams, and progress. Circulator of Rituals. Examiner of Horus [Temple, Bradford] exam answers. Superintendent of 5°=6° admissions. Corresponding Sec[retary] . Treasurer.
Such a management would spread the interest among many and giving them a living interest in the Order.
The new pass Word is out, I wonder if you can divine it again?
Private—I hear that M. now thinks [William] Peck superior to [J.W. Brodie] Innes as an occultist.
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