| Description | Bundle of papers, mainly relating to the Episcopal Church in America, 1726 - 1959. Formerly box 7, bundle 5, Including:
History in typescript of bishops of the Lindsay clan by Reverend B. Lindsay, presented to the Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney by the author, 1958.
Correspondence, 1944-1948 concerning the Seabury Memorial Appeal, with a copy of an appeal published in the USA for an ambitious scheme to construct a cathedral on a site opposite Marischal College (issued at the time of the Wall Street Crash but not followed up), in honour of Bishop Seabury.
Photograph of an indenture between Andrew Dunlop of the parish of St Martin in the Fields, Westminster, and William Bristow of the parish of St Clement Dane's. Dunlop had been instructed by the congregation of the chapel of St Paul's in Aberdeen, to agree with an able organ maker who would go to finish on the organ then being restored at St Pauls. By this indenture Bristow agrees to take ship to Aberdeen for that purpose. 1726.
Printed advertisement of the withdrawal from the Scottish Episcopal Church of the Reverend J.D. Hull of Huntly and his congregation, containing copies of correspondence illustrating the reason for the withdrawal, 1845.
Photograph of a marble tablet commemorating the Right Reverend Samuel Seabury, DD, Bishop of Connecticut and Rhode Island, who died 25th February 1796.
Letters by Mrs James Bruce to the Bishop of Aberdeen on the subject of the armorial bearings of the see of Aberdeen, 1913.
Programme for an evensong service commemorating the 175th anniversary of the consecration of the Right Reverend Samuel Seabury, DD, as the first American Episcopal bishop on 14th November 1784, which service was held in 1959.
History of the diocese of Aberdeen (in typescript) from the arrival of the first missionaries until modern times, undated.
Paper on 'Buchan churchmen' by the Very Reverend The Dean of Brechin, undated.
Programme and specimen invitation concerning the bicentennial celebrations for Bishop John Skinner, born at Longside on 17th May 1744, dated 1944.
Letter by Edward James Jonas to the Bishop of Aberdeen, concerning the form of consecration of bishops at the Restoration, Glasgow, 9th June 1902.
Printed outline of the reasons behind the appeal of the Very Reverend David Wilson, Dean of Aberdeen, to the college of bishops of the Episcopal church in Scotland, against an alleged revocation of his appointment as dean of the diocese by the Right Reverend Thomas George Suther, Bishop of Aberdeen, and also against the bishop's refusal to allow the case to be heard and pronounced upon in a diocesan synod, June 1862.
Letter by the Assistant Curator of the United Services Museum concerning the privilege of the King's Own Scottish Borderers of "beating up" within the City of Edinburgh, 9th January 1954, outlining the history of, and reasons for, the custom. (This letter was addressed to Miss M. E.M. Donaldson, 16 Denholm Green Place, Edinburgh, and is accompanied by a letter from Miss Donaldson to the Bishop of Aberdeen on the same subject, and on the intimation of loyalists by Leven's Regiment.)
Transcript of Bishop Jolly's sermon for Epiphany from St Matthew, chapter 2, verses 1-2. (Transcribed in 1831 from the sermon delivered in 1784.)
Articles of agreement between Andrew Dunlop and William Bristow [see above], 22nd March, 1726. (Original.)
Draft of a letter of condolence send by the bishop and clergy of the united diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney, assembled in synod, to Queen Victoria, on the death of H.R.H. Prince Alfred Ernest Albert, Duke of Saxe-Coburg, Gotha and Edinburgh, with acknowledgements from the Scottish Office. Whitehall, 1900. |