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[Manuscript Ledger Book Recording Three Years of Meetings for the Pine Tree Lodge of the Leesville, Louisiana Knights of Pythias]

[Manuscript Ledger Book Recording Three Years of Meetings for the Pine Tree Lodge of the Leesville, Louisiana Knights of Pythias] by [African Americana]: [Louisiana]: [Knights of Pythias]

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Title
[Manuscript Ledger Book Recording Three Years of Meetings for the Pine Tree Lodge of the Leesville, Louisiana Knights of Pythias]
Author
[African Americana]: [Louisiana]: [Knights of Pythias]
Seller
The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Description
Leesville, La, 1933. 135pp. Folio. Contemporary partially-printed ledger book, bound in half black cloth over maroon cloth boards, completed to various degrees in ink manuscript. Significant wear, dust-soiling, abrading, and staining to binding, with front joint partially split. Text block separated from spine, with a few leaves detached but otherwise intact in gatherings. Varying levels of toning and dust-soiling to text, but highly readable nonetheless. Fair condition. A unique and informative manuscript record book recording the activities of a local lodge of the Knights of Pythias in Louisiana during the Great Depression. Leesville, Louisiana is atill a very small town located in Vernon Parish, not far from the Texas border (about fifty miles from Jasper, Texas). The present ledger records meeting times and dates, appointments and elections, occasional committee reports, and notes on meeting activities, including communications, dues paid, suspensions and reinstatements of members, disbursements made by the lodge, and more, in varying levels of detail throughout the book. As an example, the September 18, 1930 meeting records (with original spelling retained) that the committee "a pointed on claning off the graves Sir Jem Davis" and five others; the "unfinished business" portion records that "Some of the members of the Lodge was dissatisfied with their endetness to the Lodge which was tabled untill the next R.M. which will be Oct 2nd;" and new business included "Sir RJ Jefferson CC of Silver Star Lodge No. 110 of Slagle La visited Pine Tree Lodge on Sept 18 and md short talk on the good of the order," followed by a listing of four other members of the Slagle lodge who accompanied Jefferson. Naturally, numerous other members of the Pine Tree Lodge and others are named throughout the activities recorded in the book, providing a written record of an African-American organization struggling to maintain social standing and provide mutual aid to its members in a harrowing time in American history.
Typewritten Letter from Prominent Southern Woman Writer Anne Bozeman Lyon, Discussing WWI

Typewritten Letter from Prominent Southern Woman Writer Anne Bozeman Lyon, Discussing WWI by Anne Bozeman Lyon

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Typewritten Letter from Prominent Southern Woman Writer Anne Bozeman Lyon, Discussing WWI
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Anne Bozeman Lyon
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Eclectibles (United States)
Condition
Very good. Toned, letter folds. Spotting and tear to envelope.
Description
Mobile, Alabama, 1918. Very good. Toned, letter folds. Spotting and tear to envelope.. Typewritten letter on official letterhead for the League of American Pen Women, from "Sister Annie" (i.e. Anne Bozeman Lyon of Mobile, Alabama) to Mrs. Herbert Harrington, dated May 29th 1918. The writer relays personal news (Frederick has recovered from an illness, your son Harold has a big heart and will be missed when he leaves for war, etc.). Written before the end of the war in November of that year the postscript here reads, "It has just struck twelve—in a few moments the soldiers will go to the train escorted by the Red Cross contingency here. Believe me, I can't keep the tears when I think of Harold [the recipient's soldier son?] and how proud you'd be of him. In spirit I am with you at this moment, just as I know your great mother soul is here in Mobile with your baby. What a hideous coil it all is—the world at war! May Christ lead us to higher, better things when it all ends." Single leaf of letterhead (11" by 8.5"), envelope measures 3.5" by 5.75" with ink revision to typewritten address. Postmarked and stamped. Anne Bozeman Lyon (1860-1936) was a prominent Southern writer from Mobile, Alabama who penned novels, articles, columns and poetry, earning her a place in the 1893 biographical dictionary "A Woman of the Century". By 1918, she had joined the National League of American Pen Women, providing the letterhead here.

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