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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Aldert Smedes Papers, #3893, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Microfilm copy of travel diary available.

Acquisitions Information

Gift 1969

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• Episcopal Church--Clergy.
• Episcopal Church--New York (State)--History--19th century.
• Episcopal Church--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Episcopal Church--Sermons--History and criticism.
• Ives, L. Silliman (Levi Silliman), 1797-1867.
• Lyell, Thomas, 1775-1848.
• Methodist Church--Clergy--Biography.
• Methodist Church--Virginia--History--18th century.
• Sermons, American--History and criticism.
• Smedes, Aldert, 1810-1877.
• Smedes, Bennett, 1837-1899.
• St. Mary's School (Raleigh, N.C.)--History.

Episcopal clergyman in New York City and rector at St. Mary's School, Raleigh, N.C., 1842-1877.

Chiefly sermons and Bible class lectures by Smedes and by his son Bennett (1837-1899), who succeeded him as rector at St. Mary's. Also included is correspondence; Aldert's travel diary in Spain, 1837; six sermons, 1828-1829, of Levi Silliman Ives, later bishop of North Carolina; and an autobiographical manuscript of Thomas Lyell (1775-1848), Aldert Smedes's father-in-law, Methodist circuit rider in Virginia and Episcopal clergyman in New York City.