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The papers contain the correspondence of Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright (1792-1854), bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and letters of two generations of the Wainwright family of Boston and New York City. Family members represented include prominent tobacco merchant Peter Wainwright of Liverpool, England and his wife Elizabeth Mayhew (1759-1829), daughter of Rev. Jonathan Mayhew (1720-1766); their children Bishop Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright and his wife Amelia Phelps; Peter Wainwright, Jr., treasurer of the Provident Loan and Trust Company of Boston and his wife Charlotte Lambert, and Elizabeth Wainwright, wife of noted obstetrician Walter Channing. less