1898 DIARY EPISCOPAL BISHOP TALBOT high official PA WY Western states

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1898 EPISCOPAL BISHOP ETHELBERT TALBOT diary top church official Pennsylvania Wyoming West ETHELBERT TALBOT, 1848-1928, fifteenth presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States, diary for the year 1898 with every day (except Dec. 30 and 31) fully filled in in ink, leather cover wrapping, 3" across x 6-1/2" high, 2 days per page, paste-on paper label on front with date 1898, Talbot remained Bishop of Wyoming upon being appointed Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Pennsylvania in South Bethlehem on February 2 (noted on this date in the diary), 1898 was an important year in Talbot's life, the dairy reflects Talbot's duties and activities in these different positions; he seems to have kept it as a record of his travels, activities, and meetings to account for his salary and expenses as suggested by entries with figures at the end of the diary, among these is a list headed "From the Board" naming different individuals with amounts given by them to support the local church and the Bishop - this is followed by a long list of "Sermons preached" on specific days noting Biblical passages these were based on, a list of furniture with prices (e. g., chair - 28.00, dining room - 39.00, mahogany table 7.00), a continuation of the list of sermons, a list of persons with addresses, transportation costs, list of appointments, and a continuation of transportation with related expenses; - ETHELBERT TALBOT had a major role in the development and organization of the Episcopal Church in central Pennsylvania and before this missionary work and the establishment of the Episcopal/Anglican Church in sparsely-populated Wyoming and neighboring territories;- ENTRIES IN BISHOP TALBOT'S DIARY FOR 1898 record the towns and cities he traveled to across America, his activities such as preaching, writing letters, and meetings with named individuals including Civil War veterans now involved in civic affairs and business in some locations, train travel usually with times of departure and arrival, and when applicable whom he dined with and stayed with, relaxation and entertainment, and in many cases a note on the day's weather, for the most part, similar activities take place in the many different places, some of the few entries apart from Talbot's activities as a religious leader reflecting social history of the era are, "attended a reading of Dickens," "good sleep on the pullman," seeing the soldiers off to their war with Spain," "visiting the Indian school," and "took a drive with George McClelland [presumably the son of the Union general] to the battlefield of Gettysburg";- THE DIARY FOLLOWS TALBOT'S IMPORTANT AND LASTING WORK as a leader in the Episcopal Church in central Pennsylvania and the new states in the northwestern United States; the names of the places he traveled to reflect the geography, history, and growth of America—Laramie, Cheyenne, Boise, Walla Walla, Harrisburg, Scranton, Denver, Omaha, Wilkes Barre, Helena, Philadelphia, and many not commonly known, Talbot also records trips during the Fall to Washington, D. C., for a religious Convention and to Cornell University for work with students, and before returning for a while to Wyoming and the West during the summer, a trip to the "Jersey shore";- CONDITION: well-preserved, scrawled handwriting legible with familiarity, ink tone occasionally light to faint yet remaining legible;- keywords: diary, United States religious history, American Anglican Church, nineteenth-century ephemera, religion ephemera, original handwritten item. read more

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