Clandestine Masonry

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Address of John J. Gorman, Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council, 33° Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite for the United States of America, their Territories and Dependencies, October 24, 1893 with summary of 1892 overtures made to Henry Lynde Palmer (Sovereign Grand Commander Ancient and Accepted Sscottish Rite, Northern Jurisdiction) to establish mutual committees to work toward union, which Palmer and his Committee on Jurisprudence refused.

Scope and Contents Typescript (copy) deposition of Josiah H. Drummond in answer to interrogatories of J. J. Gorman, Esq. of New York (William A. Hershiser, et. als vs. S. Stacker Williams et. als.). This includes the history of Drummond's receiving Scottish Rite degrees in 1859, discussion of the expulsion of Edward A. Raymond from Northern Jurisdiction, expulsion of Van Rensellaer from Northern Jurisdiction in 1862, and history of A.A.S.R. Northern Jurisdiction before and after 1867 union. This comes with an...