[FRATERNITIES / SECRET SOCIETIES.] A grouping related to The Flat Hat Club, a fraternity also known as the F.H.C. Society, and William Kavanaugh Doty (1886-1956), including an author-inscribed volume/letter. The F.H.C. was founded at the College of William and Mary, Virginia, in 1750, the first (or first recorded) collegiate secret society in the United States. W. K. Doty, from Richmond, Kentucky, was a writer and, according to a college biography, the founder/editor of a Flat Hat Club publication.   1.) COLEMAN, GEORGE P. [ED.] The Flat Hat Club and the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Some New Light on Their History. Cynthia Beverly Tucker Coleman Memorial Series Number One. Richmond: Press of The Dietz Printing Co., 1916. 8vo. Gray paper boards, printed label. Number 19 of an Edition of 250 copies. A slim volume of 14 leaves. Together with the addressed/stamped wrapper (torn/partial) addressed to W. K. Doty at the University of Virginia. Condition: Good; appears signed/inscribed by Doty on pastedown, with glued down gift note/visiting card from Mrs. George Preston Coleman. 2.) WOOD, JAMES N. Democracy and the Will to Power. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1921. 12mo. Stamped decorated green paper boards. With dust jacket (good condition). Inscribed by the author on end leaf to William Kavanaugh Doty, 1922. Condition: Good; tear/loss to corner of inscribed page. The book has partial/torn mailing wrapper, addressed to Doty, with ten 1920s red George Washington 2c stamps (postal marks; some with folds/tears). TOGETHER WITH: TLS to Doty from the author, 1922, with stamped envelope. 11in x 8 1/4in. Condition: folds; torn hole at center.