Name/Title
Letter: to Thomas M Reed from S D Nickerson, recording Grand Secretary of Maryland regarding report on "Negro Masonry" dated 1898Entry/Object ID
2013.M02.30Description
Found in Collection, Donor Unknown
Framed Letter: Framed letter to Thomas M Reed from Sereno D. Nickerson, recording Grand Secretary regarding report on "Negro Masonry" dated 1898. Transcript of the letter:
"No. 18 Boylston St.
Boston, Massachusetts
September 16, 1898
Thomas M. Reed, Esq.
Dear Sir and Brother:
Have you gone mad that you sign such stuff as the report on "negro masonry" presented to the Grand Lodge of your State at its last annual meeting? Any suckling in Massachusetts who did not know more about Masonry than the writer of that report has manifested would be spanked and put to bed. Every Grand Lodge in the United States ought forthwith to discontinue all fraternal relations with the Grand Lodge of the State of Washington.
Yours in astonishment,
Sereno D. Nickerson, Recording Grand Secretary"Create Date
June 21, 2023