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William Wynn Westcott about MacGregor Mathers and Golden Dawn
14 April - 19 December 1900.
Black Notebook labeled: "Re: Mathers and G.D." In the handwriting of Westcott. 1900 Rapprochement of William Wynn Westcott and S.L. MacGregor Mathers.
Rec'd April 14: Mather's representative C. [Aleister Crowley] called & we made a preliminary contract of peace. : I am not to interfere with G.D. [Golden Dawn] on Mathers, and M. [MacGregor Mathers] not to slander or libel me.
Rec'd May 4: Isis [Urania Temple] expelled Mathers.
Rec'd May 5: [Thomas Henry] Pattinson came to me & [Thomas W.] Wilson. : From C. re: Mathers delay.
Rec'd May 16: Heard from Mathers with redrawn contract: two copies.
Sent May 17: I stamped two copies of contract.
Sent May 18: I sent one copy contract to Mathers, signed with reservation for an additional clause.
Sent May 23: Sent him [i.e., Mathers] a letter. (copied.)
Rec'd June 30: Heard from Mathers.
Sent June 30: Wrote to Blackden [Marcus Worsley Blackden] to call.
Rec'd July 4: Heard from Blackden—away.
Sent July 4: Wrote to Mathers-[re:] Bio[graphy].
Sent July 5: Wrote to Blackden to write.
Rec'd July 18: Berridge [Edward Berridge] re: Zamael.
Rec'd July 21: [Heard from] Berridge re: a copyist.
Sent July 22: To Berridge re: copyist—Barmelt.
Sent July 22: To Mathers re: Blackden.
Sent July 22: To Blackden re: Mathers.
Sent July 23: Horus [Temple] Equinox.
Sent Aug. 21: Wrote to Berridge.
Sent Aug. 21: Sent 15/— fees to [J. Leech) Atherton. Blackden.
Sent Aug. 21: Wrote to Pattinson.
Sent Aug. 29: Wrote to Mathers a card & sent 2 Rosics.
Sent Aug. 30: Wrote to Pattinson.
Rec'd Sept. 18: Heard from Berridge re: Isis [Urania Temple].
Rec'd Sept. 20: Heard from Berridge again.
Rec'd Sept. 24: [Heard] from Berridge re: Isis [Urania] Equinox.
Rec'd Sept. 29: Josef Thibant of Strasburg.
Sent Sept. 29: To Berridge excuse for absence from Isis [Urania] Equinox.
Sent Sept. 30: Isis [Urania] Equinox.
Sent Oct. 1: Josef Thibant. : Pattinson re: Horus [Temple] & Mathers. I asked for the correspondence & decline to act in Horus [Temple] without it. (copied.)
Rec'd Oct. 8: Gardner [F.L. Gardner] called & said he had been reinstated a T[heoricus] A[deptus] Minor. : [Revd.] [William Alexander] Ayton living alone.
Rec'd Oct. 10: Heard from Berridge.
Sent Oct. 10: Wrote to Berridge. (copied.) : Wrote to Pattinson] (copied.)
Rec'd Oct. 12: Heard from Berridge & members names. : Rec'd from Ahathoor [Temple] the loan of correspondence with Mathers. : Heard from Pattinson.
Sent Oct. 15: Sent Hebrew names to Berridge as promised.
Sent Oct. 17: Ret'd correspondence to Ahathoor with regret note. : Write Pattinson.
Rec'd Oct. 19: Called on Gardner—saw Baker [Julian L. Baker].
Rec'd Oct. 20: Heard from Pattinson re: Horus [Temple].
Sent Oct. 21: Wrote to Berridge.
Sent Oct. 22: Sent T[heoricus] A[deptus] M[inor] ritual to Berridge.
Sent Oct. 22: Sent 22 old rituals to same [i.e., Berridge].
Rec'd Oct. 23: Heard from Berridge.
Rec'd Oct. 23: Called on Gardner—saw Levavi [Levavi Oculos—Percy Bullock].
Sent Oct. 23: Wrote to Ros[icrucians] & asked for old [Equinox] Pass-words & old officers.
Rec'd Oct. 27: Heard from Mathers.
Rec'd Oct. 28: Heard from Pattinson re: Horus [Temple].
Rec'd Oct. 29: Heard from Cecil Jones [George Cecil Jones].
Rec'd Oct. 30: Heard from Pattinson.
Rec'd Oct. 31: Heard from Pattinson & a letter from Wisbech.
Sent Oct. 31: Wrote to Cecil Jones.
Sent Oct. 31: Wrote to Pattinson. : This Wisbech friend.
Rec'd Nov. 6: [Heard from] Berridge.
Sent Nov. 7: Ans'd Berridge re: T[heoricus] A[deptus) M[inor] ritual.
Rec'd Nov. 8: Two letters from Berridge.
Sent Nov. 8: Ans'd Berridge.
Rec'd Nov. 12: [Heard from] Berridge re: errors [of the Theoricus Adeptus Minor ritual].
Sent Nov. 15: To Berridge re: errors.
Rec'd Nov. 20: [Heard] from Berridge re: errors.
Sent Nov. 24: Sent a [Ritual Document] Z.3 to Berridge.
Rec'd Nov. 26: [Heard] from Berridge re: errors.
Sent Nov. 26: Letter of corrections to Berridge.
Rec'd Dec. 2: A stranger called & asked for the name of a G.D. member, saying his friend [un-named] wanted an introduction (Mrs. Horos). Sent him to Gardner.
Rec'd Dec. 3: Gardner saw this same gent & considered him a fraud & sent me a report on him. (I have kept it.)
Rec'd Dec. 3: Heard from Gardner, as to Resurg [Resurgam—Edward Berridge] writing him to work in Isis [Urania Temple] and giving him the present Pass-word: Harmania.
Rec'd Dec. 4: Gardner reported on this to M.G.M. [MacGregor Mathers].
Sent Dec. 4: Wrote to warn Berridge.
Rec'd Dec. 4: Heard from Berridge.
Sent Dec. 4: Wrote again to warn Berridge. (see copy.)
Sent Dec. 13: To Mathers re: Soc.[ietas] Ros.[icruciana].
Rec'd Dec. 16: [Thomas W.] Wilson called.
Rec'd Dec. 17: Heard from Mathers.
Rec'd Dec. 18: Heard from Berridge.
Sent Dec. 19: Sent Berridge 13 photos.
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