Matthew Simpson papers, 1829-1927 (bulk 1833-1884).

Open to research.

Family and general correspondence, diaries, journals, speeches, sermons, writings, notebooks, notes, printed matter, scrapbooks, and other papers relating to Simpson's presidency of Indiana Asbury University, Greencastle, Ind.; service as a Methodist Episcopal bishop; years as a circuit preacher; editorship of the Western Christian Advocate in Cincinnati, Ohio; travels in Europe; early life in Ohio and Pennsylvania; and family matters. Subjects include division in the church over the slavery question, reorganization of the Methodist Church in the South after the Civil War, Methodist Church expansion during the 19th century, and the church and science. Correspondents include Edward Raymond Ames, Montgomery Blair, James Harlan, Edmund S. Janes, and Thomas A. Morris.

Methodist clergyman, educator, editor, and orator.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012165