Autograph Letter Signed ('R. Lindsay Crawford') from Robert Lindsay Crawford, co-founder of the Independent Orange Order, from Canada to fellow-Ulsterman Robert Lynd.

2pp., 12mo. In fair condition, on aged and worn paper. An intimate, chatty letter, written in a difficult hand, beginning: 'My dear Lynd, | Health & apostolic benedictions. The odour of the Eucharistic Congress still hangs round me after the <?> of the sea & much disappointment & tribuation, at Montreal I shook the dust of Quebec off my wearied feet & reached Toronto on Thursday last. I got the "Star" to take some articles & am here at the Convention for the same paper. We are all under the same roof, but I have in [sic] the background & have not approached any of them. You could possibly say I was an O'B spy.' He praises Toronto, and asks for a supply of Free Trade League 'free literature'. From the Lynd papers.