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[Identification of item], in the B. B. Smith Papers, #3198, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Bishops--Kentucky--History--19th century.
• Episcopal Church--Bishops--History--19th century.
• Episcopal Church--Kentucky--History--19th century.
• Episcopal Church--Parties and movements--History--19th century.
• Kentucky--Religion--19th century.
• Smith, B. B. (Benjamin Bosworth), 1794-1884.
• Thompson, Eugene H.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Religious aspects.

MICROFILM ONLY. Manuscripts, pamphlets, articles and clippings, and other material relating to Benjamin Bosworth Smith, first Episcopal bishop of Kentucky. These papers were collected on microfilm, presumably in the early 1950s, by Eugene H. Thompson Junior Items from the Archives of the Episcopal Church include letters from Smith and other Kentucky bishops, letters concerning Episcopal affairs during the Civil War, and letters concerning the Reformed Episcopal Church (Cummins schism). Papers from General Theological Seminary are essays and addresses by Bishop Smith. Items from Mrs. Hardy include clippings and family letters.