LIBRARY CATALOGUE
Masonic Library.doc Update July 2005 Nov 2005 FORWARD
It is easy to overlook the obvious, or, as we drive around beautiful state to overlook the treasures which surround us.
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In our Masonic life we do the same. Tucked away just inside the front doorway of 3 Sandy Bay Road is a treasure of Masonic literature. Our past, our present and our future are all locked up in the volumes on the shelf. Unfortunately, too few use them and many give as the excuse that they do not know what is there. I commend this initiative to give everybody details to assist them to properly use this excellent facility which we have. This brief history of our Masonic library and museum has been provided to me by V.W. Bro. Melville Davis. "A Library of Fuziliers Lodge I.C. petitioned remain in V.D.L.
Masonic Literature was mooted by the Royal Scots attached to the 21st Regiment when that Lodge No 33 to the Grand Lodge of Ireland for their Warrant to in 1837.
Tasmanian Union Lodge, formed in 1844, established a collection of Masonic reading and when Grand Lodge decided in 1894 to establish a Masonic Library, Tasmanian Union Lodge generously transferred their books, and several brethren promised books. In 1939 the Board of General Purposes accepted the offer of the Freemasons Hall Company Ltd to place a room at the disposal of Grand Lodge Library Committee in the new Temple to house the Masonic Library and to utilise the same for the formation of a Masonic Museum and donated £25.0.0 towards the furnishing. When Hobart Lodge of Research 62 T.C. was founded in 1948 the Board vested the custody of the Library and Museum with that lodge and allowed the Lodge £25.0.0 annual grant for its maintenance." Many thanks to those who care for the library and the Public Relations Sub-Committee which has sponsored this catalogue. May they both be well used by our brethren. C.B. Ward, Grand Master April 1992 Revised and updated July 2005 (MGL/JL) Note:-Entries with the suffix “L” are part of the library of the