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Correspondence from George Cecil Jones to J.F.C. Fuller
43, Gt. Tower St., E.C.
24 March 1911
Dear Fuller
The plot thickens or becomes more transparent according to the way you view it.
1. The Printers having delivered a joint defence with the other defendants, which amounts to a plea of justification, have got leave to amend their defence and will be reportedly reciprocated.
2. Fenton & Co. have applied for a commission to take Mathers' [MacGregor Mathers] evidence in Paris and Ward's [Kenneth Ward] in Bourne. The Master refused both. The Judge however granted the Paris commission. Now we have to dis-credit Mathers, whose malice probably knows no bounds. I must get Crowley to get back from your brother's firm my notes of my dealings with Cran. Mathers of course can't be compelled to come over here: and he will not probably because he fears your brother's firm would serve a writ on him for unsatisfied costs and it is rumoured his own legal advisers—Cran & Co.—would like to catch him too. Bullock knows Cran.
Mathers is referred to in Fenton's affidavit as Comte MacGregor de Glenestre. Note the abandonment of the Scottish territorial title, so that he causes this [illegible] of the Holy Roman Empire. But it won't help him much.
Now it would be satisfactory to cross-examine him on that letter he wrote to Mrs. Emery [Florence Farr], I think it was—in which he accused Westcott [William Wynn Westcott] of forgery and admitted his own complicity in putting forward forged documents as genuine. I have a copy of that letter in the Temple of Solomon. Where did you get it? From a pamphlet [illegible] by D.E.D.I. [W. B. Yeats] and others in 1900? I shall try to get the original but, [illegible] that want to get back as far as possible.
That [illegible] your brother's firm [illegible] includes a copy of a letter written by Crowley to [illegible] Fellowes in which A.C. says the in genius though nameless [illegible] is one Mathers—half rogue half madman—of whose threats of legal proceedings he has as little fear as of his previous threats of murder. Mathers brought no libel action.
If you can unearth your authority for the forgery letter it would help.
Kind regards to Mrs. Fuller.
Yours sincerely,
G. Cecil Jones.
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