https://www.nps.gov/articles/the-civil-war-at-golden-gate.htm
From pages 5- 6 in the 2024 print edition:
Dear Charles T s:
Since we parted at the “Golden Gate,” the weight of a world has rested on your shoulders, and I have suffered much, in my journeyings up and down the world, as wearily I wandered over Zahara’s burning sands and among the shrines and monuments of Egypt, Syria, and Araby the blessed; separated in body, but united in soul, we have each sought knowledge, and, I trust, gained wisdom. Our book is just begun. One portion of that work consists ln the endeavor to unmask villainy, and vindicate the sanctity and perpetuity of marriage. In this little work I have tried to do this, and believe that if the magic talisman herein recommended as a sovereign balm for the strifes and ills of wedlock, be faithfully used, that the great married world will adopt your motto and my own, and become convinced that in spite of much contrary seeming “WE MAY BE HAPPY YET!”
[Charles Trinius of Stralsund was Grand Guard of the San Francisco Supreme Grand Lodge founded by Randolph in 1861].
To you, and to such this book is
Affectionately dedicated by your friend and the world’s,
P. B. RANDOLPH.
Following posts into 2026 will serialize the book with illustrations and historical annotations; here is a first installment.