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MORRIS, ROBERT 1818-1888. - The Masonic Odes And Poems. By Robert Morris, LL. D.Chicago : Printed by Knight & Leonard, 105, 107, and 109 Madison Street, 1876 . 0. Fourth edition. A very good original cloth binding. 8vo. 8.0" x 6.25" x 0.5". pp.145 . Green cloth over bevelled boards, edges rubbed and corners bumped. Rubbed gilt titles to front board. Light discolouration to lower corner of front board. Original brown endpapers. Previous owner's signature to front free-endpaper: "W. M. La Fiorce, Gold Hill, Nev, 1875". Clean text throughout. VG. ** " Rob Morris was a prominent American poet and Freemason. He also created the first ritual for what was to become the Order of the Eastern Star. Many references state that Rob Morris was born on August 31, 1818, near Boston, Massachusetts. However, there is some evidence that he was born Robert Williams Peckham, in New York, and that he adopted the name of his foster parents after the death of his birth parents, later shortening his name to Rob to avoid confusion with another poet named Robert Morris. After he became a Mason on March 5, 1846, he became convinced that there needed to be a way for female relatives of Masons to share in some measure in the benefits of Freemasonry. While teaching at the Eureka Masonic College ("The Little Red Brick School Building") in Richland, Mississippi in 1849-1850, he wrote Eastern Star's first ritual, titled The Rosary of the Eastern Star. He organized a "Supreme Constellation" in 1845 to charter Star chapters. In 1866, because of his planned travel abroad, he handed over the organizational authority of Eastern Star to Robert Macoy. Over the years, he wrote over 400 poems, many of which were devoted to Eastern Star and Masonry. While traveling in the Holy Land, he wrote the words to the hymn "O Galilee". In 1854, he wrote "The Level and the Square", which may be his best-known poem. Because of his many works on Masonic subjects, on December 17, 1884, he was crowned the "Poet Laureate of Freemasonry", an honor which had not been granted since the death of Robert Burns in 1796. His health began to fail in 1887, and in June 1888, he became paralyzed. He died on July 31, 1888, and is buried at La Grange, Kentucky. The Rob Morris Home is kept as a shrine to Rob Morris by the Kentucky Grand Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star." - See Wikipedia . GBP 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 71.25 | CHF 67.5] Buchzahl 47225wird angeboten von:
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