Bishop Ian T. Douglas and archivist Meg Smith hold Bishop Samuel Seabury’s restored miter. | Episcopal Church in ConnecticutSaving Samuel Seabury’s Miter September 8, 2017 Clips, News A miter once worn by the Rt. Rev. Samuel Seabury, Bishop of Connecticut, has returned to the Episcopal Church in Connecticut after a five-week restoration. Textile Conservation Workshop of South Salem, New York, restored the miter, which reportedly had been held for years by a college fraternity. Seabury bought the miter in 1786, two years after his consecration. The Rev. Kenneth W. Cameron, a former diocesan archivist and a professor at Trinity College in Hartford, is credited with recovering the miter from the fraternity. The miter sat in a custom wooden box, with a lock and glass door, from 1971 to 2014, “covered inexpertly with UV — very dark — film,” said Meg Smith, archivist of the Episcopal church in Connecticut. It was transferred to an acid-free manuscript box in 2014. Although a donor had expressed interest in funding the restoration, Smith said, the bishops and canons decided that the Episcopal Church in Connecticut should pay for the project. Adapted from a report by Pam Dawkins, Episcopal Church in Connecticut
