Theodore Benedict Lyman papers, 1840-1878.

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Theodore Benedict Lyman papers, 1840-1878.

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The papers chiefly consist of Lyman's correspondence with his close friend Bishop William Rollinson Whittingham to whom he attributed much of his success. Substantial holdings relate to the College of St. James and to St. John's Parish, Hagerstown, 1840-1850 (as well as later references); financial, literary, educational, parochial and local affairs, including the dispute over attempts to establish Christ Church, Hagerstown. A few items relate to his time as rector of Trinity Church, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1850-1860. Numerous letters concern Lyman's residence in Europe, 1860-1870. They include descriptions of visits in England, life in Dresden, and a trip to Norway. But primary emphasis is on religious affairs in Italy, the reform movement in the Roman Catholic Church, relations with that Church, and the Episcopal chapels in Florence and Rome. The latter chapel was established by Lyman, whose ministry there resulted in the Episcopal Church of St. Paul's-within-the-Walls. Two letters concern Lyman's visit to California in 1872; and other correspondence of this decade declines appointment as Dean of the General Theological Seminary in New York and a call to Christ Church, Baltimore. There are about twenty-two items dating from Lyman's years as Bishop Coadjutor of North Carolina, 1873-1878, but only a few deal with the affairs of that diocese. Most discuss the affairs of the Episcopal Church elsewhere, including developments in the Diocese of Maryland. Some concern Lyman's attendance at the Lambeth Conference of 1878 and conditions in the Church of England, as well as other subjects. Because of the intimate nature of much of Lyman's correspondence with Bishop Whittingham, there are many references to family affairs and relatives, including the Reverend Dwight E. Lyman, Anna, Fanny, Albert and William Lyman, and to Mrs. Lyman, nee Anna Albert, and the Albert family of Baltimore, particularly the marriage of heiress Mary Albert to Robert McKim, 1859. The collection also includes printed copies of a few of Lyman's sermons and addresses.

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