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Correspondence from William Wynn Westcott to F.L. Gardner
Private & Confidential
[Undated: circa March 1900]
Dear Bro[ther] G[ardner],
Please accept best thanks for your services, in coming with [William] Ayton's letter, for Ayton sent me his copy of a letter from Mathers [MacGregor Mathers] about the new rebellion ag[ain]st his authority—it was marked "not to be shown to any one" and it threatened me with all sorts of pains and penalties for conspiring against him—which is very hard considering how I have kept away from all his pupils.
He declines to close Isis [Urania Temple] and says the Chiefs may all resign if they like. I have sent an answer to Ayton—as the oldest member saying I can't interfere and that they ought to say to M.[athers] that I have not interfered with him. Allegations are easily made by M., a man of straw, which might cause me hundreds of Pounds to refute, and that I must at present submit to his slanders.
I have asked Ayton to send on the note at once to his friends the Acting Chiefs, with a request that they will not mix me up in their quarrels.
Yours sincerely, always, S[apere] A[ude)
Don't refer to this letter when you write to me, nor to your visit to the Court.
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