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This collection consists of bibles, service books and other published items selected as special collections, primarily because they were acquired and/or used by St. Peter's Cathedral Church over the years. The selection will be reviewed periodically and items added or removed as new information is received related to their provenance and relationship to the church.

This publication is in poor condition; additional descriptive information will be added upon review.

The title page is stamped "Library of Dr. Bray's Associates".

According to various sources, Dr. Thomas Bray (1656-1730) was an English reverend who created a system of parochial libraries in many of the thirteen American colonies. He was educated at All Souls' College of Oxford, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1678; he later received a doctorate in divinity at Oxford. Bray was ordained to the Church of England and later chosen to travel to the Province of Maryland to serve as Commissary (representative of the Church). He devoted himself to establishing parochial libraries in the colonies.

This stamp suggests the book was circulated as part of Dr. Bray's library system. How it came into the collection of St. Peter's Cathedral Church is unknown.

This publication is inscribed "to Margaret Killen [?]".

Publications are added to the St. Peter's Cathedral Church archives' collection if they fit the Archives' mandate and have a direct relationship to the history of the church or contain information closely relevant to the story of the church or community. Additional copies of ephemera and grey literature have been retained if they seem to have been actively collected and/or used by ministers and church officials or members over the years. Series have been established for the following; extent is an estimate only, based on the size of the box. Each series, aside from Church Calendar, needs to be reviewed, appraised, arranged and described in more detail:

(1) Church Calendar (32 x 27 x 6 cm box)
(2) Church art and architecture (44 x 30 x 8 cm box)
(3) Sunday School and children's literature (44 x 30 x 8 cm box)
(4) Scouting publications (32 x 27 x 6 cm box)
(5) World War I and post-war or war-related military and government publications (32 x 27 x 6 cm box)
(6) Churches general (39 x 27 x 6 cm box)
(7) Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge publications (40 x 31 x 28 cm box)
Nos: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 are in one 40 x 31 x 28 cm box)
(8) Catholic Literature Association
(9) Mowbray Publishers
(10) St Peter and Paul London
(11 League of American Loyalists (LAL)
(12) Association for Promoting Retreats (APR)
(13) Various booklets
(14) Various pamphlets and tracts (44 x 30 x 8 cm box)

The bible is inscribed "to Henrietta Harris from Brother Henry Harris, 1839."

The "self-interpreting" bible, with notes by Rev. John Brown, D.D., is also referred to within St. Peter's Cathedral Church as "the Wadman Bible." Inside the pages of the book are an envelope addressed to T. Edgar McNutt from William H. H. Wadman, postmarked 22 August 1963, enclosing a letter asking that the bible be put into safekeeping at St. Peter's Cathedral. William Wadman notes that the bible contains a family record of the family of Henry D. Wadman. The genealogical information itself is listed on pages between the Old and New Testaments.