SPG and the United States of America

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This small collection comprises two volumes (CLS/127 & CLS/128), with indices, of copies of the most important US-related correspondence, both received [i.e. those read before the Society] and sent. These reveal the on-going, albeit much reduced, extent of the SPG's activities in the United States during the latter half of the nineteenth, and into the early twentieth century, covering the periods from March 1851 to March 1916 and from April 1916 to July 1928 respectively. They are accompanied by the only volume of copies of letters received from the Diocese of Honolulu (CLR/217), the first item being from the King Kamehameha V, to the Archbishop of Canterbury and dated 28 January 1871. The second letter, and most thereafter, are from Alfred Willis, Bishop of Honolulu, spanning the annexation of Hawaii by the USA in July 1898, and ending on 21 March 1910 with a letter from Professor Richard H. Thorntory, regarding the transfer of "certain funds held by your Society in trust for the Church in Hawaii, now an integral part of the American Church."

Also available via British Online Archives (BOA) as a supplement to the collection: American material in the archives of the USPG.