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Document 262770
JIMMY CARTER. TLS: "Jimmy Carter", 1p, 6½x8½. No place,
(probably Atlanta as the postmarked, franked envelope indicates). 1994
February 9. To Colonel and Mrs. Ronald P. York, Smyrna, Delaware. In
full: "Thank you for the box of candy. I am pleased to learn of the
efforts of the Fraternal Order of Eagles and its recognition of extraordinary
citizens in your community. Rosalynn joins me in sending both of you our warm
best wishes." Jimmy Carter was an Honorary Member of the Fraternal Order
of Eagles, founded in 1898 by six theater owners sitting on a pile of lumber in
Moran's shipyard in Seattle, Washington. Competitors in the theater
industry, they met to discuss a musicians' strike. After deciding what to do on
that issue, they decided to bury the hatchet and form an organization dubbed
"The Order of Good Things". They chose the bald eagle as their official
emblem and changed the name to "The Fraternal Order of Eagles." Most of the
first Eagle members were connected with the theatre, such as actors, stagehands
and playwrights, and as they went on tour they carried the story of the new
order with them across the United States and Canada. Fine condition.
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