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19 items. Includes photocopies of commissions and papers of family revolutionary war veterans.

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5 items. Includes several copies of Bishop Bentley's The Cake Family: A Bibliographical Memorandum,and other computations of information.

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29 items. Includes notes and family correspondence related to compilation of Bishop Bentley's The Cake Family: A Biographical Memorandum.

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44 items. Including letters and postcards to his parents from France during World War I, letters from French citizens, personal letters thanking him for ministerial services, letters from Giles Buckner Cooke (1838-1937) (last surviving member of R. E. Lee's staff) found (with photo of Cook) in Bentley's copy of D.S. Freeman's R. E. Lee, Volume I. See also correspondence of Elvira C. Bentley.

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23 items. Including birth certificate, school reports, passports, inoculation records, wedding invitation, driver's license (items from personal documents wallet), membership certificates, copy of a poem by Bentley, and copy of will, 1950, of Nancy Jones, for whom Bentley was an legatee.

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41 items. Including certificates of promotions and training, identity pass for service in France, roster and casualties of Battery B, 111th Field Artillery, a pressed poppy flower from Chateau Thierry, and 5 uniform insignias. See also medium oversize file.

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Scope and Contents 35 items. Including letters to Elvira C. Bentley describing his travels and work in the interior of Alaska, especially travel conditions, weather, conditions at missionary posts, and his performance of official acts. Also includes several orders for supplies for mission and undated records of daily temperatures.

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45 items. Including letters to Elvira C. Bentley during his world tour of 1959 and tours of Latin America, 1960 and 1961. Descriptions and impressions of London, Paris, Geneva, Israel, several cities in India, Singapore, Thailand, Taipei, Japan, and the Philippines. Includes cursory discussions of church work.

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20 items. Items relate to his receipt of an honorary degree (Doctor of Divinity) from the College of William and Mary, May 1985. Including program and Alumni Gazette. See also Medium Oversize file.

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14 items. Items include baptism certificate, licenses as lay reader and marriage commissioner, certificate as Suffragan Bishop of Alaska, and programs for observation of 50th anniversary of his consecration. See also Medium Oversize file.

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Scope and Contents 5 items. Typed transcript of his oral history interview (September 19, 1981) as part of Columbia University's "Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill Oral History Project". Bentley discusses his own career, missions and missionary work, and Bishop Sherrill. Also a 1 page resume written ca. 1943.

Scope and Contents 75 items. Items relate to his ministerial career, including extensive correspondence in 1930-1931 and 1937 among Bentley, Bishop P. T. Rowe, and W. A. R. Goodwin regarding Bentley's appointment(s) in Alaska, Williamsburg area in the 1920's, letters from Bishop Rowe discussing work in Alaska, extensive correspondence with Bishop Henry K. Sherrill regarding Bentley's appointment as director of overseas missions, and correspondence relating to Bentley's nomination as Suffragan Bishop of...

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85 items. Items include letters congratulating Bishop Bentley on his appointment as Directory of Overseas Missions, including letters from missions around the world.

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9 items. See also bound volume of letters.

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27 items. Items are in regards to his retirement as Director of Overseas Missions; letters received from missions and church officials around the world, together with carbon copies of Bentley's acknowledgments. See also bound volume of letters received and Medium Oversize file.

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133 items. Items include Bentley's list of letters, gifts, etc., received and date acknowledged.

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22 items. Items include programs and bulletins from church services, historical observances and ceremonies in which Bishop Bentley participated, including bulletin of 1984 William and Mary commencement ceremony.

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10 items. Items include addresses at commencement ceremonies, dedications, ordinations, memorial services, and historical society meetings, 1933-1970, including comments on duties of priests, missionary work, and historical events.

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17 items. Items include addresses at ordinations, memorial services, and historical observances, 1971-1979, including outline of 1975 address entitled "Williamsburg As I Knew It."

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10 items. Most items handwritten, a few typed, including record of occasions on which each was delivered; arranged chronologically, according to date first delivered.

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13 items. Items include records of occasions on which they were delivered; arranged according to date first delivered.

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8 items. Arranged by date delivered.

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1 item.Typed on 126 pages from looseleaf notebook. Arranged by place and date, specifying occasion and text used.

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1 item. 159 pages. Comprehensive calendar/schedule of daily activities, including official acts, meetings, addresses, and invocations, including record of miles traveled and expenses incurred on his travels, mostly on the Virginia peninsula.

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5 items. Official acts include baptisms, confirmations, marriages, etc. that he performed in Diocese of Southern Virginia. Arranged chronologically, grouped by year.