In a letter to HVBV date March 4^th 1969, Right Reverend Dr. H.W. Cummings wrote, “Whether we like it or not, we who write about the doings of Freemasons some two centuries ago must remember that all branches of the society have been secretive if not secret in some measure, and in many quarters, completely.  Some records that should have been made never were made others that were made were deliberately destroyed;

and numerous ones were lost.  Now when you combine secrecy with skullduggery you enter a field already over occupied and overpopulated by past artists of imagination with which the literature of Freemasonry is replete.  Let us not add any more."