Inventory of the James Hervey Otey Papers, 1823-1884
Collection Number 568
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Otey, James Hervey, 1800-1863.
- Title
- James Hervey Otey Papers, 1823-1884.
- Call Number
- 568
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- 250 items
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Administrative Information
- Additional Descriptive Resources
- A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the James Hervey Otey Papers, #568, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Copyright Notice
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- Diaries.
- Episcopal Church--Bishops.
- Episcopal Church--Clergy--Diaries.
- Episcopal Church--History--19th century.
- Episcopal Church--Sermons.
- Episcopal Church--Tennessee--History--19th century.
- Otey, Eliza D., d. 1861.
- Otey, Isaac, fl. 1800-1833.
- Otey, James Hervey, 1800-1863.
- Sermons.
- Sermons.
- Tennessee--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- Tennessee--Religious life and customs.
- Virginia--Politics and government--1775-1865.
Related Material
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James H. Otey diaries, Jessie Ball duPont Library, University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn.
Biographical Note
James Hervey Otey (1800-1863) was an Episcopal bishop of Tennessee, 1834-1863. His father, Isaac, was a prominent citizen and state legislator from Bedford County, Va.
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The collection includes sermons, diary, and correspondence. The bulk of the collection is made up of more than 130 manuscript sermons and lectures plus a quantity of notes and fragments. The fourteen volumes comprise a diary of Otey's daily activities, 1840-1862 (with occasional gaps). Correspondence includes letters from the 1820s and 1830s from Otey's father, Isaac, a prominent citizen and state legislator from Bedford County, Va., concerning family news, and Virginia politics; letters on church business, including a copy of one from Otey to Bishop John H. Hopkins, 1862, giving Otey's views on the organization of the church in the Confederate States, the effect of the Emancipation Proclamation, and mentioning the abuses of the federal forces occupying Tennessee; and correspondence of Eliza D. (Pannill) Otey, wife of James.