Alfred Allen Curtis papers, 1855-1872.

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Alfred Allen Curtis papers, 1855-1872.

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Correspondence by and about Curtis, chiefly with Bishop William Rollinson Whittingham, concerns his education, theology, churchmanship, ordination, and career in the Episcopal Church. It records his work in St. John's Parish, Worcester County, 1856-1859; Catoctin Parish, Frederick County, and St. Luke's Church, Baltimore, 1860; Chester Parish, Kent County, 1861-1862; and Mount Calvary Church, Baltimore, 1862-1872. Some letters concern his refusal to give thanks for Union victories during the Civil War; his appointment as Whittingham's secretary; diocesan business he transacted in the Bishop's absence, 1866; his doctrinal views; conversion to the Roman Catholic Church, and deposition from the Episcopal ministry, 1872.

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