"That is not what Allan Wilson or Hugh Wilson wrote."
Tom:
I believe Hugh Wilson did write the report about his committee laying out numerous different courses in the winter of 1911 then going to NGLA (second week of March 1911) and then doing five different plans that Lesley read into the board meeting minutes; one of which was approved by the board on April 19, 1911. Wilson was the chairman of the committee, who else would have written the report for HIS committee? Lesley probably didn't write the report because he wasn't on the committee and he probably didn't go to NGLA with the committee.
"You do have the report, that is true, whether it proves what you say it proves remains to be seen. The fact that you have only given us a disjointed portion of the report, with a confusing narrative mode, does seem to indicate there are portions of the report you would prefer hidden. The question is why?"
Remains to be seen by whom? You or Merion? If you think Merion should listen to you about the accuracy of their architectural history I think you probably have a pretty good idea what you would need to do about that at this point. As far as I know Merion does not depend upon Golfclubatlas.com to explain, interpret and write their architectural history.
"The fact that you continue to call it the "Wilson report" despite the fact Lesley gave it, and it apparently does not mention Wilson or his committee by name, brings further questions. I would also caution you not to jump to the conclusion that "plans" translate to routing. Lesley tells us a course or routing was in existence prior to the NGLA visit, that was rearranged when they returned. Common sense indicates the plans were a tweaking of that course, as opposed to five new full routings. Wilson's ongoing preparation of the ground also indicate this had to be a tweaking."
We've been all over this a number of times before and there's no point in going over the same things again the same way. Apparently neither we nor Merion agree with your interpretations reflected just above.