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[Identification of item], in the John Livingston Reese papers #4891-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from Terry L. Alford of Annandale, Va., on 11 September 1997 (Acc. 97119).

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• Episcopal Church--Virginia--History--19th century.
• Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary in Virginia (Alexandria, Va.)--Students--History--19th century.
• Reese, John Livingston, 1839-1899.
• Sectionalism (United States)
• Seminarians--Virginia.
• Theological seminaries--United States--History--19th century.

John Livingston Reese (1839-1899) was a native of Philadelphia who received his M.A. (1860) and D.D. (1875) from Union Theological Seminary. He later served at churches in Alabama, Pennsylvania, and New York.

Letters from John Livingston Reese, a student at the Episcopal Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Va., to his cousin William, a divinity student in Philadelphia. Reese discussed notable personalities including the family of Robert E. Lee and leading American theologians. He described the relations between seminarians and local churches and the daily life in the seminary. He also wrote about contemporary political troubles from the perspective of a Northerner living in the South prior to the Civil War.