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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Thomas Cogdell Wetmore Papers, #3701, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Purchased from Schindler's Antique Shop, Charleston, S.C., 1964.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Baltimore (Md.)--Description and travel.
• Christ's School (Arden, N.C.)--History.
• Courtship--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Episcopal Church--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Johns Hopkins Hospital--History--19th century.
• Lincolnton (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• New York (N.Y.)--Description and travel.
• Wetmore, Susannah.
• Wetmore, Thomas Cogdell, 1869-1906.

Thomas Codgell Wetmore (1869-1906) was an Episcopal clergyman at Fletcher and Arden in Buncombe County, N.C., and founder of Christ's School for boys in Arden. He was the son of William Robards Wetmore and Mary Bingham Wetmore of Lincolnton, N.C. Prior to his work as a minister, Wetmore was was a job printer, a telegraph operator, a railroad station agent, and, for a short time, publisher of a newspaper.

Thomas Codgell Wetmore was married to Susanna Boone Allan, a relative of Susanna Robertson Lyman, wife of the Episcopal Bishop of North Carolina, Theodore B. Lyman.

The collection is chiefly letters between Thomas Codgell Wetmore and his wife, Susanna Boone Allan. The bulk of the letters, 1892-1893, deal primarily with matters of courtship and engagement, but also discuss Episcopal Church matters in general and Bishop Theodore B. Lyman in particular, and individuals in Lincolnton, N.C. Later letters are were written during periods of separation while Susanna was caring for an aunt at Arden and Wilmington, N.C., and at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md., 1894; while she was at Hot Springs, N.C., 1897; and while Thomas was in New York, N.Y., and other northern cities raising funds for his church and school work, 1898-1904.