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Vindication of General Washington from the stigma of adherence to secret societies

by Joseph Ritner

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source

48 pages ; 24 cm Vindication of General Washington / extract from the Journal of the House of Representatives, vol. 1, page 276 -- Letter to Daniel Webster -- Reply of Mr. Webster

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Initiatory orders and secret societies.

  • Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Freemasonry”. Retained metadata contains “Secret societies” in the title, “Freemasonry” in the subject metadata, and “Secret societies” in the edition title.

    • Freemasonry· via Internet Archive
    • Freemasonry· via Open Library
    • Secret societies· in title
    • Freemasonry· in subject
    • Secret societies· in edition title

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Editions

Open Library reports 3 editions; 2 cataloged here.

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1841-01-01T00:00:00ZBoston : Printed by E. LincolnEnglishPublic digitized item

Open Library record

1837Printed by T. FennEnglishPublic

Subjects

4 subject headings

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Boston Public Library
  • Contributing institution: The Library of Congress
  • Digitization sponsor: Boston Public Library
  • Digitization sponsor: Sloan Foundation
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana
  • Open Library reports 3 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Scanner: scribe2.boston.archive.org
  • Scanner: scribe4.boston.archive.org
  • Scanner: scribe5.capitolhill.archive.org
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL7705569W
Edition coverage
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