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Found in 762 Collections and/or Records:

Letter from Trinity Lodge, No. 18, 1967

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Content Description From the Collection:

The collection of Peter B. C. Brown, Jr., spans the years 1963-1989, with the bulk of material dating from 1963 to 1968. The collection features approximately 105 items collected by Brown in his role at the Trinity Lodge, No. 18, and includes minutes of meetings, lodge records and correspondence, certificate, personal original writings and notes, personal finance papers, photographs, newspaper clippings, and Masonic pamphlets and ritual books.

Dates: 1967

Letter from Trinity Lodge, No. 18, 1967 July

 Item
Content Description From the Collection:

The collection of Peter B. C. Brown, Jr., spans the years 1963-1989, with the bulk of material dating from 1963 to 1968. The collection features approximately 105 items collected by Brown in his role at the Trinity Lodge, No. 18, and includes minutes of meetings, lodge records and correspondence, certificate, personal original writings and notes, personal finance papers, photographs, newspaper clippings, and Masonic pamphlets and ritual books.

Dates: 1967 July

Letter from Trumbull Cary, 1829 July 26

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Identifier: A2021-037-001
Dates: 1829 July 26

Letter from William White to H. Chase, 1858 September 8

 Item — Box 3, Folder: 1
Identifier: A2021-052-001
Dates: 1858 September 8

Letter from Winyah Lodge, No. 40, to Pacific Lodge, No. 45, 1873 June 04

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Identifier: A2018-009-002
Content Description

Letter from Winyah Lodge, No. 40, to Pacific Lodge, No. 45. Dated June 04, 1873. In this letter, Winyah Lodge, No. 40, describes how white Union soldiers of the 15th Maine torched their lodge building in response to being “relieved by a Battalion of United States colored Troops” under the command of Colonel A. J. Willard. Concludes by appealing to Masons for relief in rebuilding their “lost Temple.”

Dates: 1873 June 04

Letter from Worshipful Master Elwood Evans of Olympia Lodge, No. 1, 1864 July 30

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Identifier: A2017-052-001
Content Description

Letter from Worshipful Master Elwood Evans of Olympia Lodge, No. 1. Dated July 30, 1864. This letter from Elwood Evand, the Worshipful Master of Olympia Lodge, No. 1, warns the Fraternity to be wary of Masonic imposter "O. H. Treat, Tweed, or Treed,"

Dates: 1864 July 30

Letter to Elizabeth B. Church from James H. Kearns, 1847 July 12

 Item — Box 3, Folder: 1
Identifier: A2023-048-001
Scope and Contents

Kearns wrote to Church about a portrait of her recently deceased husband that they have and offers it to the widow with the lodge's sympathies for the death of her husband, a fellow member. The letter has an Odd Fellow's seal affixed to it.

Dates: 1847 July 12

Letter to Frazier W. Hurltant from J. S. Bark, 1881 May 27

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Identifier: A2023-084-001
Scope and Contents

The letter discusses the history of the Grand Lodge of New York.

Dates: 1881 May 27

Letter to Grand Lodges to Establish General Grand Lodge of US pamphlet, 1822 April

 Item — Box 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: A1994-139-001
Scope and Contents Circular from appointed committee of eleven members submitted to several Grand Lodges and distributed among Masons concerning the establishment of a General Grand Lodge of the United States. It contains a report of a meeting held on March 9, 1822 among "members of Congress who belong to the Masonic Fraternity" as well as "visitors to the city who are or have been members of any state grand lodge... held in the Senate Chamber" to discuss the establishment of a national Grand Lodge....
Dates: 1822 April

Letter to J. Philip Berquist from Heudt, 1981

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Identifier: A2023-076-001

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