Purchase through Amazon Edited and Introduced by Guillermo De Los Reyes The papers of Hans Paul Caemmerer (1922-1954) are deposited in the National Archives and include considerable correspondence concerning this book about Pierre Charles L’Enfant (1754–1825). It was Caemmerer who dispelled the belief that L’Enfant was an engineer, and found that he studied in the French… Continue reading L’Enfant and the Freemasons: H. Paul Caemmer’s The Life of Pierre Charles L’Enfant
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Masonic Tombstones and Masonic Secrets: Dora C. Jett’s Minor Sketches of Major Folk
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Freemasonry in Old Buffalo: James Leroy Nixon’s History of Buffalo Consistory
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James Martineau and Rebuilding Theology: J. Estlin Carpenter’s James Martineau, Theologian and Scholar
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No Bird Lacks Feathers: William Atherton Dupuy’s Our Bird Friends and Foes
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The Genius of Freemasonry: William B. Clarke’s Leaves From Georgia Masonry
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Bookplates of the Kings: Christine Price’s Catalogue of Royal Bookplates
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Material History and Ritual Objects: George Blake Dexter’s The Lure of Amateur Collecting
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Making Trouble for Muslims: A. Rawlinson’s Adventures in the Near East
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The Man Who Killed President Garfield: George H. Herbert’s Guiteau the Assassin
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The Thomas Starr King Dispute: Acceptance and Unveiling of the Statues of Junipero Serra and Thomas Starr King
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The Pope and the Freemasons: The Letter “Humanum Genus” of the Pope, Leo, XIII against Free-Masonry and the Spirit of the Age
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