Produced by Curtis Weyant, Stephanie Eason, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) =THE MASONIC PORTRAIT OF BROTHER GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON. ORIGINAL PASTEL PORTRAIT FROM LIFE BY WILLIAM WILLIAMS, PHILADELPHIA, SEPTEMBER 1794, PAINTED AT THE REQUEST OF ALEXANDRIA LODGE, No. 39, A. Y. M., WARRANTED BY THE GRAND LODGE OF PENNSYLVANIA, FEBRUARY 3, 1783, NOW THE ALEXANDRIA-WASHINGTON LODGE, No. 22, A. F. & A. M. OF VIRGINIA. REPRODUCTION FROM THE UNIQUE COPY IN THE MUSEUM OF THE R. W. GRAND LODGE, F. & A. M. OF PENNSYLVANIA. COPYRIGHTED BY ALEXANDRIA-WASHINGTON LODGE, No. 22, VIRGINIA, AND PRINTED BY ITS PERMISSION.= Washington's Masonic Correspondence AS FOUND AMONG THE WASHINGTON PAPERS IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Compiled from the original records, under the direction of the Committee on Library of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, with annotations. BY JULIUS F. SACHSE LIBRARIAN, MASONIC TEMPLE PHILADELPHIA PHILADELPHIA 1915 Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1915, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C., by J. HENRY WILLIAMS, R.W.G.M. COMMITTEE ON LIBRARY JOHN WANAMAKER, _Chairman_, SAMUEL W. LATTA, NORRIS S. BARRATT, HARMAN YERKES, HENRY DARRACH, WALTER T. TAGGART. JULIUS F. SACHSE, _Librarian_. _An Edition of One Thousand Copies has been printed, of which this is No._ 355 PRESS OF THE NEW ERA PRINTING COMPANY LANCASTER, PA. =J. HENRY WILLIAMS Grand Master 1914-1915.= J. Henry Williams, R. W. Grand Master Office of the R. W. Grand Master F. & A. Masons in Pennsylvania, Masonic Temple Philadelphia, The position of eminence, the great respect and the profound reverence in which the name of WASHINGTON is enshrined in the hearts of the American people, and particularly so, with the members of this Fraternity, and of all true lovers of liberty and freedom wheresoever dispersed, is the reason, if any be needed, why everything relating to this great man and worthy brother should be preserved for the future generations, to be used by them as a guide, in the cultivation of those cardinal virtues of Honor and Integrity, that should ever characterize the conduct of a good man and a good Mason. The collection and reproduction of the letters of Brother WASHINGTON, together with the text of this book, have been prepared under my supervision, and its publication is heartily approved. J. Henry Williams _Grand Master._ FEBRUARY 22, A.D. 1915--A.L. 5915. CONTENTS. PAGE Foreword 1 The Masonic Correspondence of Washington 5 I Correspondence with Watson and Cassoul 19