"So how about it? Why don't you insist that we all see the MCC info so we can draw our own conclusions?"
How many times have you asked that question on here and how many times have you been provided the very same answer? Maybe a dozen times? Or maybe more than that? Don't you know or can't you read or do you continue to ask on here for some other reason?
MCC and Merion have telephones, You have a telephone, right? Here's a suggestion---why don't you just call up either or both and ask for yourself if there is some reason you don't want to take our reason and answer after providing it to you endlessly?
Or here's another idea----anything we've seen that you haven't and anything we've said about what we've seen that you haven't seen just consider it as only our opinion of what it means, nothing more. That's the way we want to present it. You may consider this website to be the same thing as a court of law and if so you're probably the only one. This is a discussion section of an architectural website that is based upon people's opinions. If someone doesn't like someone else's opinions, so what, that's just the way it goes on here. If you don't like that or can't accept it, then do what we have done and approach Merion about it. Is there some reason you can't do that? Do you think someone on this website is stopping you? No one that I'm aware of is.
We don't run Merion G.C. or MCC. We don't make their decisions. If you're having problems with accessing their records and documentation perhaps you should begin to ask yourself why that is. Don't ask us.
Our opinion of your essay has been stated many times before, most recently by Mike Cirba. We believe he's absolutely right in what he said---eg your discovery of a 1912 trip abroad by Hugh Wilson was previously unknown and it is a very good discovery and will doubtless become part of Merion's history. But the rest of the points, premises, inferences and conclusions of the essay including the inference that this must all mean that Wilson was too much the novice to have been able to design Merion East without having Macdonald do it for him is total fabrication of fact. It is untrue. The fact is Wilson did it anyway whether he went abroad first or whether he didn't. There never was a Macdonald routing done for Merion, a H.H. Barker stick routing presented to the real estate developer was never used or mentioned again and Francis' late night idea did not take place in 1910 but in 1911 and the triangle in question was always part of equation, it was merely added to slightly by the reconfiguring of the line of the road which was not yet built when Francis came up with his idea most likely in the early spring of 1911 and definitely not at any time in 1910.
Again, your 1912 trip abroad by Wilson is the only new and correct information in the essay, and it is an interesting discovery indeed albeit not important to who designed the course. The rest of your ideas are all incorrect and they will not be accepted by Merion or anyone else with a modicum of understanding of the architectural history of Merion East in 1910 and 1911. If you find and produce a Macdonald routing that would of course be a wholly different story but that seems a virtual impossibility because such a thing has never even been mentioned before, not by MCC and not by anyone ever and furthermore, the board meeting minutes of who did Merion East's routings and when completely contradict such a notion. If the club had never recorded who did what and when this entire subject may be somewhat more interesting but that is not the way it was or is---eg they did record who did what and when.
And the last factor that you, along with Mr. MacWood, have always challenged Merion and us about---eg that Merion or us minimized Macdonald/Whigam's actual contribution to MCC and Merion East is also completely incorrect and a fabrication on the part of both of you. What those two did for MCC and the Merion East course has always been mentioned and credited to them---contemporaneously by the MCC board, in Merion G.C.'s history books and by us.