Box 1

Scope and Contents This folder contains correspondence between Bushnell and his deputies about and with clandestine groups. This folder contains letters on organizations such as the Universal Masonic Brotherhood, an African American organization not recognized by Prince Hall Freemasonry, and international organizations such as splinter Scottish Rite groups in Italy. Of particular interest is Bushnell's correspondence with the William V. Banks, founder of the International Free and Accepted Modern Masons, a...

Scope and Contents This folder contains corrrespondence between Bushnell and others about and with clandestine groups. The folder mentions several African American clandestine organizations with which Bushnell discusses with George W. Crawford, Sovereign Grand Commander, United Supreme Council, Prince Hall Affiliation, Northern Jurisdiction. It also contains correspondence on irregular groups in Europe. Of particular interest is a letter from Ray V. Denslow outlining clandestine groups in Michigan in 1955, the...

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This folder contains correspondence between Newbury and others about and with clandestine groups. The majority of the correspondence is on irregular African American Masonic organizations that are not reconginzed by Prince Hall Freemasonry. Of particular interest is the petition for recongition by the Supreme Council 33rd Degree Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite for the Atlantic Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States of America Grand Orient of Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands.

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This file contains correspondence and files on the Pennsylvania court case on the clandestine Scottish Rite organizations active in that state.

Scope and Contents This folder contain correspondence related to a 1976 gift to the museum by Robert K. Sykes of three charters related to the organizations involved in the Pennsylvania clandestine case. These charters can be viewed in this catalog under the numbers: A2016-054, A2016-050, and ...

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This file contains correspondence with Stanley F. Maxwell and others on and with clandestine Masonic organizations. The majority of the folder contains correspondence with and about the Supreme Council, Atlantic Masonic Jurisdiction, Grand Orient of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Raymond A. Martinez, Sovereign Grand Commander, has been writing the Supreme Council about this organization from Bushnell to Maxwell seeking recognition.

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This file contains correspondence with Francis G. Paul and others about and with clandestine Masonic organizations, specifically some Spanish-speaking lodges in Pennsylvania.

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This folder contains correspondence to and from Melvin Johnson on clandestine bodies.