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Finding Aid Authors: John Coski.
Administrative Information
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Preferred Citation:
John Boyd Bentley Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Acquisition Information:
Gift: Acc. No. 82-36; 5 items, 10/2/1982.Gift: Acc. No. 82-39; 310 items, 10/17/1982.Gift: Acc. No. 83-22; 350 items, 4/16/1983.Gift: Acc. No. 84-8; 15 items, 2/9/1984.Gift: Acc. No. 85-52; 350 items, 11/18/1985.Gift: Acc. No. 88-10; 2 items, 2/17/1988.Gift: Acc. No. 88-16; 9 items, 4/26/1988.Transferred: Acc. No. 94-90; 1 item, 12/21/1994.
Processing Information:
Processed by John Coski in 1987.
Biographical Information:
John Boyd Bentley was born in Hampton, Virginia 9 February 1896. He attended the College of William and Mary and served in the U. S. Field Artillery in World War I. Bentley attended the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia He served as an Episcopal clergyman in Alaska and in Williamsburg. He then served as Suffragan Bishop and Bishop of Alaska. From 1947 to 1964, Bentley was Director of Overseas Missions of the Episcopal Church. He died 12 June 1989.
Biography Timeline
1896, February 9 Born, Hampton, Virginia,son of Charles Headley Bentleyand Susan Elizabeth (Cake) Bentley
1915 Entered College of William and Mary(attended 1915-1916 and 1920-1921 but did not graduate)
1917 Entered service in U.S. Field Artillery
1921, May 28 Married Elvira Wentworth Carr(died, 1983)
1921 Attended Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia
1921-1925 Episcopal clergyman in Alaska
1926-1930 Episcopal clergyman in Williamsburg, Virginia
1931 Ordained Bishop in Denver, Colorado
1931-1942 Suffragan Bishop of Alaska
1942-1947 Bishop in charge of Alaska
1947-1964 Director of Overseas Missions of Episcopal Church
1964 Retired and moved to Hampton, Virginia
1964-1989 Episcopal minister in Diocese of Southern Virginia
1989, June 12 Died, Hampton, Virginia. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: .
Scope and Contents
Personal and professional papers, 1896-1987, of Bishop John Boyd Bentley, Bishop of Alaska and Director of Overseas Missions for the Protestant Episcopal Church and personal papers, 1895-1983, of his wife Elvira Carr Bentley.
Includes comprehensive records of his ministerial career including records of his official acts and texts of sermons and invocations. There is some correspondence relating to Bentley's career, including letters from W. A. R. Goodwin (1869-1939), Rector of Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, Virginia; Peter Trimble Rowe (1856-1941), Bishop of Alaska; and Henry Knox Sherrill (1890-1980), President Bishop of the Episcopal Church.
There is material relating to Bentley's work in Alaska, including a series of letters to his wife, 1930-1937, describing his travels on the Alaskan frontier. The collection also includes a photograph collection as well as diaries, correspondence, and photographs which chronicle his tours of the Far East in 1949; a world tour, 1959-1960; and tours of Latin America, 1960-1961. There are audio-cassettes of his autobiography.
Arrangement of Materials:
Organization: This collection is organized into 7 series. Series 1 contains papers and correspondence; Series 2 contains bound volumes and other related material; Series 3 contains photographs; Series 4 contains oversized material; Series 5 contains artifacts; Series 6 contains audio tapes; Series 7 contains the addition to the collection. Arrangement: This collection is arranged by chronologically by date. Series 1: Papers and Correspondence, is further divided into the following subseries: genealogical material, the papers of John Boyd Bentley, and the papers of Elvira Carr Bentley.
Folder for Series 7 (addition 1994.90) filed as Box 3, Folder 23.
Related Material
Audiocassettes from this collection have been moved to the Manuscripts Audiovisual Collection.
Separated Material
Artifacts transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03) include Alaskan Landscape Painting (82B44.A11)
All audiovisual material from this collection has been moved to the Manuscripts Audiovisual Collection.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Bruton Parish Church (Williamsburg, Va.)
- College of William and Mary--Alumni and alumnae
- Correspondence
- Diaries
- Episcopal Church--Clergy
- Episcopal Church--Missions
- Photographs
- United States--Alaska--History
- World War, 1914-1918
General
Other Information:
Additional information may be found at http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00058.frame
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- Bentley, Elvira Carr, d. 1983
- Bentley, John Boyd, 1896-1989
- Goodwin, William Archer Rutherfoord, 1869-1939
- Sherrill, Henry Knox, Bp., 1890-
Container List
Boxes 1-2
- id170113
Genealogical MaterialScope and Contents
Box 1, Folders 1-3
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id170115
Genealogical material on Bentley family and ancestral families: Headley, Bull, and BoydScope and Contents
19 items. Includes photocopies of commissions and papers of family revolutionary war veterans.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 id170116
Genealogical material on Wood and Cake familiesScope and Contents
5 items. Includes several copies of Bishop Bentley's The Cake Family: A Bibliographical Memorandum,and other computations of information.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id170117
Genealogical material1965-1966Scope and Contents
29 items. Includes notes and family correspondence related to compilation of Bishop Bentley's The Cake Family: A Biographical Memorandum.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id170115
- id170118
John Boyd Bentley Papers1896-1987Scope and Contents
Boxes 1-2
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 id170120
Bishop Bentley's personal correspondence1917-1981Scope and Contents
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.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5 id170121
Bishop Bentley's personal items1896-1980Scope and Contents
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.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6 id170123
Bishop Bentley's items, relating to his army service1971-1928Scope and Contents
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.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7 id170124
Bishop Bentley's personal correspondence1930-1937Scope and Contents
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.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8 id170125
Bishop Bentley's personal correspondence1959-1961Scope and Contents
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.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9 id170127
Bishop Bentley's correspondence and other items1984-1985Scope and Contents
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.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10 id170128
Bishop Bentley's documents, relating to his personal religious milestones1913-1981Scope and Contents
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.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11 id170129
Bishop Bentley's biographical information1943-1981Scope and Contents
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.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 12 id170130
Bishop Bentley's correspondence1925-1974Scope 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 Southern Virginia (1958).
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 13 id170140
Bishop Bentley's correspondence1947Scope and Contents
85 items. Items include letters congratulating Bishop Bentley on his appointment as Directory of Overseas Missions, including letters from missions around the world.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 14 id170141
Letters congratulating Bentley on the 25th anniversary of his consecration as Bishop1956Scope and Contents
9 items. See also bound volume of letters.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 15 id170142
Bishop Bentley's correspondence1963-1966Scope and Contents
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.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 16 id170143
Letters congratulating Bentley on the 50th anniversary of his consecration as Bishop1981Scope and Contents
133 items. Items include Bentley's list of letters, gifts, etc., received and date acknowledged.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 17 id170145
Bishop Bentley's papers1964-1984Scope and Contents
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.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 18 id170146
Bishop Bentley's papers1933-1970Scope and Contents
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.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 19 id170148
Bishop Bentley's papers1971-1979Scope and Contents
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."
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 20 id170150
Bishop Bentley's papers, including sermons1927-1932Scope and Contents
10 items. Most items handwritten, a few typed, including record of occasions on which each was delivered; arranged chronologically, according to date first delivered.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 21 id170152
Bishop Bentley's sermons1934-1948Scope and Contents
13 items. Items include records of occasions on which they were delivered; arranged according to date first delivered.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 22 id170154
Bishop Bentley's sermons and remarks at services delivered primarily at churches in Hampton and the Virginia Peninsula1959-1973Scope and Contents
8 items. Arranged by date delivered.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 23 id170156
Bishop Bentley's record of sermons and addresses delivered primarily in Southern Virginia1965-1985Scope and Contents
1 item.Typed on 126 pages from looseleaf notebook. Arranged by place and date, specifying occasion and text used.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 24 id170157
Bishop Bentley's "Appointments Completed"1964-1978Scope and Contents
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.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 25 id170159
Bishop Bentley's copies of annual and monthly (tabular) reports of "Official Acts"1964-1969Scope and Contents
5 items. Official acts include baptisms, confirmations, marriages, etc. that he performed in Diocese of Southern Virginia. Arranged chronologically, grouped by year.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 26 id170160
Bishop Bentley's copies of annual and monthly (tabular) reports of official acts; and a tabulation and geographical breakdown of these acts1922-1985Scope and Contents
13 items. Copies of annual and monthly (tabular) reports of official acts which he performed in Diocese of Southern Virginia, 1970-1978, 1985; and a tabulation and geographical breakdown of official acts performed, 1922- 1976.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 1 id170163
Bishop Bentley's records of baptisms which he performed during his ministerial career1922-1987Scope and Contents
2 items. 211 pages. Items are from a loose-leaf notebook detailing names, dates, and places of services.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 2 id170164
Bishop Bentley's records of consecration, ordinations, and marriages performed during career1922-1983Scope and Contents
9 items. 61 pages. Items are from a loose-leaf notebook(s) detailing names, dates, and place for each act, including occasional related correspondences.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 3 id170165
Bishop Bentley's papers including record of burial services performed during career1922-1987Scope and Contents
13 items. 127 pages. Items are from a loose-leaf notebook detailing names, dates, and places of services. Also includes occasional funeral home records and newspaper obituaries.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 4 id170167
Bishop Bentley's papers including records of confirmations performed during ministerial career1931-1966Scope and Contents
14 items. 166 pages. Pages from a loose-leaf notebook detailing names, dates, and places of services, plus records of confirmations performed on his East Asian travels.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 5 id170168
Bishop Bentley's papers including record of confirmations performed during ministerial career1967-1985Scope and Contents
14 items. 189 pages. Pages from a loose-leaf notebook detailing names, dates, and places of services.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 6 id170170
Bishop Bentley's papers including items relating to his trip to Far East and his world tour of 19591948-1959Scope and Contents
8 items. Items include travel diaries of both trips, documents pertaining to honorary degree received in Japan (December 1948), and itinerary for 1959 tour. See also travel diary of Elvira C. Bentley for the 1959 trip and Medium Oversize subseries.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7 id170171
Bishop Bentley's writings1916, 1931-1946Scope and Contents
13 items. Items include "Blackbeard (a story)"in March 1916 The William and Mary Literary Magazine, and 12 articles on his adventures and travels in The Alaskan Churchman.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 8 id170172
Bishop Bentley's papers including newspaper and magazine clippings on personal mattersScope and Contents
12 items. Items especially concern his army service, and high school football team and re-unions, and a copy of wedding announcement.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 9 id170173
Newspaper and magazine clippings1927-1970Scope and Contents
42 items. Items regard Bentley's professional career, including articles on his appointments, many describing his work in Alaska and his retirement. Also includes a 1927 article by Bentley, entitled "With the Episcopal Students at the College of William and Mary,"and the December 1956 issue of The Alaskan Churchman.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 id170120
- id170175
Elvira Carr Bentley Papers1895-1983Scope and Contents
Box 2, Folders 10-13
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 10 id170177
Personal items of Elvira C. Bentley1895-1983Scope and Contents
13 items. Items include a birth certificate, passports, inoculation certificates, social security card (items from wallet), obituary, death certificate, and description of her death by her husband, and items relating to retirement and death of her father.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 11 id170178
Personal items of Elvira C. Bentley1914-1953Scope and Contents
13 items. Items include all materials related to her education, high school graduation memorabilia, membership certificate of Colonial Dames, copy of address given in Atlantic City (1934) and her diary of 1949 Far East trip. See also Medium Oversize File.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 12 id170179
Personal correspondence of Elvira C. Bentley1921-[?], undatedScope and Contents
Scope and Contents 14 items. Item mostly concern undated letters received from Bentley family and friends in Alaska, and silver anniversary cards received.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 13 id170181
Personal letters of Elvira Carr Bentley received from Bishop P. T. Rowe1921-1941Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents 21 items. Most letters were received during his trips to East Coast and during Bishop Bentley's absence; discusses church financial troubles during the Depression, her work with women's church organizations in Alaska, and Rowe's expectation that Bentley will succeed him; includes letter from Mrs. Vernon M. Geddy on behalf of the "Bishop Bentley Branch of the Women's Auxiliary of the Bruton Parish Church" (10 February 1934) inquiring how they can assist work in Alaska and Rowe's letter (5 December 1935) describing his visit to Williamsburg and Hampton.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 10 id170177
Box 2, Folders 14-24
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 14 id170186
Account book of C. D. Cake, (Bentley's grandfather), Hampton, Virginia1873 March-NovemberScope and Contents
40 pages. Manuscript Volume 1. Record of purchases for construction projects; originally a pocket diary for 1871, but never used for this purpose.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 15 id170188
Commonplace book of Elvira W. (Carr) Bentley relating to commencement from Hampton High School1914Scope and Contents
36 pages. Manuscript Volume 2. Includes diary of final weeks before graduation, pressed class flowers, class roster, and other enclosed items which are in a separate folder of her personal items.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 16 id170189
Photograph album of Hampton and Virginia peninsula1914-1915Scope and Contents
144 photographs on 52 pages. Photographs. Manuscript Volume 3. Includes labeled photos of ships, harbor, sites of city, Bentley's family and friends, College of William and Mary, and Bentley's handwritten description (ca. 1983) of photos.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 17 id170191
Commonplace book "The Form of Solemnization of Matrimony"from the Book of Common PrayerScope and Contents
13 pages. Manuscript Volume 4. Text of wedding service, marriage certificate and signatures of witnesses for Bentley's wedding, 28 May 1921.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 18 id170193
Photograph album, photos of the "Bishop's Lodge" Nenana, Alaska1932-1937, undatedScope and Contents
29 pages.Photographs. Manuscript volume 5.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 19 id170196
Letterbook. Bound volume of letters received on the 25th anniversary of Bentley's consecration as Bishop1956 September 29Scope and Contents
53 pages. Manuscript Volume 6. See also folder of other letters.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 20 id170198
Letterbook. Bound volume of letters received upon Bentley's retirement as director of Overseas Missions1964 October 31Scope and Contents
104 pages. Manuscript Volume 7. See other letters in Manuscript Folder.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 21 id170201
Guest book for 50th anniversary of Bentley's consecration as Bishop, St. John's Church, [Hampton, Virginia]1981 September 29Scope and Contents
18 pages. Manuscript Volume 8.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 22 id170202
Additional correspondence, including letters of greetings and congratulation from House of Bishops and from Diocese of Southern Virginia1986Scope and Contents
3 items.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 23 id170204
Miscellaneous items found inside a 1976 book, Bruton Parish Churchyard and Church: A Guide to the Tombstones, Monuments, and Mural Tablets , dedicated to BentleyScope and Contents
4 items. Items include updated newspaper description of book, note cards of remarks at dedication of book, and transcription of tombstone in Hampton, Virginia.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 24 id170205
Outline and first 107 handwritten pages of Bentley's reminiscences, "John Boyd Bentley, His Life and Times: An Autobiography."Scope and Contents
2 items.
Box 3, Folders 1-22
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 1 id170209
Photographs: Cake family portrait (1898), childhood photos of Bentley and photos relating to Bentley's military service1898-1919Scope and Contents
See also mounted photographs and medium oversize items and 4 army photos, in oversize file.
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 2 id170211
Photographs: wedding pictures of Elvira C. Bentley, pictures of first stint in Alaska, and Bentley in Williamsburg and Hampton, Virginia1919-1930Scope and Contents
See also mounted photographs.
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 3 id170213
Official photos of Bentley and others upon his consecration as Bishop1931Scope and Contents
See also negatives file.
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 4 id170214
Photographs of Alaska and portraits of Bentley1931-1935
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 5 id170216
Photographs of hurricane damage at Buckroe Beach, Hampton, Virginia1933
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 6 id170217
Photographs of Alaska and portraits of Bentley1935-1939
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 7 id170219
Photographs of Alaska1942-1947
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 8 id170221
Photographs of the Bentleys in Alaskacirca 1931-1947, undated
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 9 id170222
Photographs of people in Alaska, especially at St. Mark's Mission, Nenana, Alaskacirca 1931-1947, undated
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 10 id170224
Photographs of Alaska, especially of St. Mark's Mission, Nenana, Alaskacirca 1931-1947, undatedScope and Contents
See also postcards and mounted photo album in bound manuscript volumes.
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11 id170227
Photographs of Alaska; ships and natural scenerycirca 1931-1947, undatedScope and Contents
See also postcards.
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 12 id170228
Photographs - portraits of Bentley and photos of Bentleys on Far East tour of 19491948-1949
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 13 id170230
Photographs of Japan and Philippines taken on Far East tour1949Scope and Contents
See also postcard folder.
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 14 id170231
Photographs of Bentley1954-1959Scope and Contents
Photograph of Bentley and others at Bishop's Conference, circa 1954. Photograph of party celebrating Bentley's 25th anniversary of his consecration, 1956. Photograph of Bishop Henry K. Sherrill. Photograph of Bentley on his 1959 world tour.
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 15 id170232
Photographs of Bentley's home in Hampton, photos taken on and after Bentley's retirement, photos of Bentley receiving award from the College of William and Mary (1970), and pictures of family and friends enclosed in correspondence1962-1981
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 16 id170234
Photographs of painted portrait of Bentley during his service in Alaska, and photographs at 1985 William and Mary Commencement, at which Bentley received an honorary degree1981-1985
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 17 id170235
Photographs of Bentley and Mrs. Bentley, including several autographed visa/passport photos found in Bentley's travel documents walletcirca 1947-1964, undated
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 18 id170236
Photographs: carte de visite and mounted photographs of Bentley's family, 19th century.
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 19 id170238
Photographs, mounted, of Hampton Harbor and 1912 Hampton High School football team1908-1912Scope and Contents
See also photograph album in bound manuscript volumes and newspaper clippings.
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 20 id170239
Photographs (mounted) and postcards of Bentley's family and, especially, of Bentley's military service1916-1922Scope and Contents
See also oversize file.
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 21 id170240
Mounted photographs of Alaska and Elvira C. Bentley in Alaska (1921-1925), and negatives of photos from Bentley's (1931) consecration1921-1925, 1931
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 22 id170241
Postcards of Alaska and postcards of Japan (with original wrapping)undated
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 id284995
Rolled Photograph of Delegates to the 1958 Lambeth Conference1958
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 id285000
Key to the Photograph of Delegates to the 1958 Lambeth Conference1958
- Mixed Materials Manuscripts Oversize Box 17 Folder: 1 id170245
Medium Oversize1914-1985Scope and Contents
Mostly diplomas and certificates of Bishop Bentley and Mrs. Bentley, including Mrs. Bentley's high school diploma, United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) and Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) membership certificates, and Bishop Bentley's certificates as Deacon, Priest, and Bishop, honorary degrees, and items received in Japan (written in Japanese) in 1949. Also photograph of Bracken House in Williamsburg, where the Bentleys resided, 1929-1939.
- id170247
Oversize1916-1985Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents 3 items. Items include a photograph of Battery D, 1st Regiment of Field Artillery, Virginia Volunteers, at Richmond, 27 June 1916, honorary degree from College of William and Mary (1985), and copy of the "Frenchman's Map" of Williamsburg.
Box A, Folders 1-15. Physical location: See artifact box (A)
- Mixed Materials Box: A id170251
Box A
- Mixed Materials Box: A Folder: 1 id170255
Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award Plaque, College of William and Mary, presented to Bentley1942 July 8Scope and Contents
Plaque
- Mixed Materials Box: A Folder: 2 id170256
The Jessen's Weekly Annual Award (Plaque) for Distinguished Service to Alaska, presented to Bentley1948Scope and Contents
Plaque
- Mixed Materials Box: A Folder: 3 id170257
Belt buckle with Bentley's name inscribed on it by Private Harry E. Black, Battery "B", 111th Field Artillery, while billeted in Rosieres-Sur-Mance, France1918 Winter-1919Scope and Contents
Belt buckle.
- Mixed Materials Box: A Folder: 4 id170258
Book board from unidentified leather-bound book, bearing the book plate of Bentley's ancestor, John Boyd.
- Mixed Materials Box: A Folder: 5 id170259
Cross given to Bentley by his classmates at the Virginia Seminary when he left for Alaska1921 MayScope and Contents
Cross
- Mixed Materials Box: A Folder: 6 id170260
Cross given to Bentley by the Missionary District of Alaska on the 15th anniversary of Bentley's consecration as Bishop1946Scope and Contents
Cross
- Mixed Materials Box: A Folder: 7 id170261
Cross given to Bentley by the Diocese of Southern VirginiaundatedScope and Contents
Cross
- Mixed Materials Box: A Folder: 8 id170262
"Housewife" made for Bentley by Margaret M. Sims when he was called up for active service, June 1916, and used during World War I.Scope and Contents
Also includes pocket-size New Testament, inscribed by Margaret M. Sims.
- Mixed Materials Box: A Folder: 9 id170263
Medal for Service and Loyalty to the College of William and Mary, awarded in 19701970Scope and Contents
Medal
- Mixed Materials Box: A Folder: 10 id170264
Alumni Rosette, College of William and Mary. Box-folder A:11 Painting of Alaskan landscape by Mrs. John W. Chapman given to Elvira Bentley on her birthday1922 February 15Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents Painting. 3" x 5"
- Mixed Materials Box: A Folder: 11 id170265
Fraternity ring for Kappa Alpha.Scope and Contents
Ring
- Mixed Materials Box: A Folder: 12 id170266
Bishop Bentley travel wallet.Scope and Contents
Wallet. Documents previously kept in it are in personal items files.
- Mixed Materials Box: A Folder: 13 id170267
Elvira C.Bentley travel wallet.Scope and Contents
Wallet. Documents previously kept in it removed and filed with personal items.
- Mixed Materials Box: A Folder: 14 id170268
Army identification tag, "John B. Bentley, 1st Lt., III F.A., U.S.A."
- Mixed Materials Box: A Folder: 1 id170255
Other: 1-9 Physical Location: Manuscript artifact file. Acc. No. 1988.16 Audio cassettes
- id170271
Audio cassette1900-1916Scope and Contents
"A description of Hampton Creek about 1900, with a brief outline of my life from my birth until I went to Richmond with Battery in 1916." Physical Location: Manuscript artifact file. Acc. No. 1988.16 Audio cassette.
- id170274
Audio cassette1989-1915Scope and Contents
Physical Location: Manuscript artifact file. Acc. No. 1988.16 Audio cassette. Side 1 is entitled "A description of Hampton Creek about 1900, and my story until 1898." Side 2 is entitled "My year in the Shipyard, 1914-1915."
- id170276
Audio cassette1916-1921Scope and Contents
Physical Location: Manuscript artifact file. Acc. No. 1988.16 Audio cassette. Side 1 is entitled "My military career from June, 1916, until we left Camp de Meucon, France in October, 1918." Side 2 is entitled "Our last days in France, our return to the U.S.A., and all that happened from then until we arrived at Anvik, Alaska in 1921."
- id170279
Audio cassette1921-1926Scope and Contents
Physical Location: Manuscript artifact file. Acc. No. 1988.16 Audio cassette. Entitled "Anvik, 1921-1925; "Charlotte Hall School, 1925-1926"; and "my appointment with Dr. Goodwin about going to Williamsburg."
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Audio cassette1926-1931Scope and Contents
Physical Location: Manuscript artifact file. Acc. No. 1988.16 Audio cassette.
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Audio cassette1931-1932Scope and Contents
Physical Location: Manuscript artifact file. Acc. No. 1988.16 Audio cassette. Side 1 is entitled "Consecration in Denver, September 29, 1931." Side 2 is entitled "Voyage of PELICAN IV, 1932," and "Revival of The Alaskan Churchman."
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Audio cassette1931-1947Scope and Contents
Physical Location: Manuscript artifact file. Acc. No. 1988.16 Audio cassette.
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Audio cassette1948-1964Scope and Contents
"Years at the office in New York, 1948-1964." Physical Location: Manuscript artifact file. Acc. No. 1988.16 Audio cassette.
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Sermon preached in the chapel of the Wren Building1984 September 30Scope and Contents
Physical Location: Manuscript artifact file. Acc. No. 1988.16 Audio cassette.
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Interviews with Bishop John Boyd Bentley and Carter Henry Harrison1915-1923, 1989Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents Physical Location: Acc. No. 1994.90 1 item. Series 7: Addition 1994.90 Interviews were aired during 1989 as part of the "Virginia Voices" series on WHRO-FM public radio. Both were interviewed by Tempy Cornelius-Fisk.