Item 1: Dr. Henry W. Ducachet, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Rt. Rev. William Meade, Millwood, Virginia, 1845 February 22

Expresses gratitude to Meade for the "moral courage you have manifested in bringing a most unworthy man to justice"; adds approval that those of the accused's ilk are at their "downfall."

Item 2: William Meade, Suffolk, Virginia, to the Minister and Vestry of the Episcopal Church in Suffolk, Virginia, 1845 April 25

Congratulates them on the commencement of building a new church; warns them, however, not to give the altar the central position to the detriment of the lectionary and pulpit; encourages them to maintain peace in the Virginia diocese by designing the church according to the custom of that area and not returning, as apparently some were doing, to the "Romish forms."

Item 3: J. H. Wingfield, Portsmouth, Virginia, to Rt. Rev. William Meade, Fredericksburg, Virginia, 1845 May 19

Informs Meade of the case of one in Wingfield's church who voluntarily withdrew himself from communion and was then elected a delegate to the state convention; Wingfield thinks that to attend convention he ought to commune.

Item 4: William Meade, Alexandria, to anonymous correspondent, 1845 June 27

Regrets that correspondent should think that Meade questioned [or doubted] the correspondent's conscientiousness and conveyed these doubts to a Dr. Waller (?).

Item 5: William Meade, Millwood, to R. B. Butt (?) and other members of the Vestry, Portsmouth, Virginia, 1845 August 5

Regrets the continuing conflict between rector and vestrymen; advises that granting an associate rectorship would be contrary to custom; argues from this one unless size demarked it; encourages them to heal the breaches.

Item 6: William Meade, Millwood, to General Cocke [probably John Hartwell Cocke], 1845 January 18

Relates that he had earlier decided to abstain from all distilled liquors; sometimes drinks a domestic wine mixed with water; supports the Temperance Societies but opposes their demands for total abstinence, arguing that there is liberty to drink wine in moderation; believes total abstinence is best for some, but that it shouldn't be insisted upon; youth should abstain; notes that intemperance in eating and drinking are often connected; some eat excessively to have an excuse for drinking; had wine been as strong in the "time of the Prophets and Apostles," Scripture may have forbidden its use.

Item 7: Rev. J. H. Wingfield, Portsmouth, Virginia to William Meade, posted 1846 June 8)

Quotes extensively from a document of one of the vestrymen friendly to both parties (Wingfield and the opposing vestry) in which the writer exhorts both sides to lay aside differences, to act charitably, to be in proper subjection to their minister, and not to be so quick to judge; Wingfield then quotes from Murdough who rejected the counsel of charitability and cites remaining differences; Wingfield asserts that no congregation can "gag" him or keep him from preaching "the whole counsel of God."

Item 8: Rev. J. H. Wingfield, Portsmouth, Virginia, to Rt. Rev. William Meade, Millwood, Virginia, 1846 December 21

Wingfield, having been called a high churchman and Romanist by some in his congregation, denies the charges and assures Meade that it is those laymen who are of "sectarian descent" and revival converts that are acting uncharitably; takes Meade to task for earlier referring favorably to the dissenters and continues to excoriate his attackers in strong terms; asks Meade to state in writing if he knows of anything heretical in W.'s preaching or immoral in his conduct; to undercut W.; feels that his entire "official life is at stake;" pleads for Meade's Judgment.