Letter from Enoch Terry Carson to Jacob Norton, 1878 September 26

Letter from Enoch Terry Carson to Jacob Norton, 1878 September 26

A letter from Supreme Council member Enoch Terry Carson of the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction to Jacob Norton, a Jewish Freemason. Dated September 26, 1878. In this letter, Carson attacks Leon Hyneman, whom he mistakenly calls Brenneman, and his book, Freemasonry in England from 1567 to 1813, including an analysis of Anderson's Constitutions of 1723 and 1738, authorized by the Grand lodge of England. In particular, Carson defends James Anderson and John T. Desaquiliers and the Universality of Freemasonry.

Collection of Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library, Lexington, Massachusetts. MA.300.006

1878 09 26

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English

A2011/017/034

Jacob Norton Papers. See the Museum Archives for more information regarding this collection.

2 items (5 pages) ; 25 x 20 cm. ; 9 x 15 cm.

Museum purchase