1 Mrs. Richmond, the Bishop and the English Businessman: Transylvanian, American, and British Unitarian Enigmas A Collaboration between a Transylvanian Unitarian Archivist and an American Unitarian Universalist Minister Rev. Molnár Lehel, Archivist
[email protected] The Hungarian Unitarian Church Archives in Kolozsvár B-dul. 21. Decembrie Nr. 9. Cluj Napoca/Kolozsvár, Romania Rev. Claudia Elferdink
[email protected] Silver City, New Mexico and New Haven, Connecticut, USA All photographs courtesy of the Hungarian Unitarian Church Archives or the Authors In part, funded by the Unitarian Universalist Funding Program, Boston, Massachusetts And the Hungarian Unitarian Church in Kolozsvár In Two Parts Chapter 1 in June, Chapter 2 in December 2018 2 PREFACE The seeds of this project were sown in the fall of 2012 when the Transylvanian Unitarian Archivist, Molnár Lehel, 1 received a letter from a stranger. I was the unknown American, Rev. Claudia Elferdink who was then serving as the settled minister at the Shoreline Unitarian Universalist Society in Madison, Connecticut, USA, midway between New York City and Boston. Volunteering to work for the Archives of the Hungarian Unitarian Church, HUC during my 1 For Hungarian-speaking people, names begin with the family name first, then the given name, such as Molnár Lehel. Women generally keep their family name and sometimes both partners add the other’s family name into their own. English-speaking names are the reverse: first the given name, then the family name, such as my name, Claudia Elferdink. This paper respects each cultural practice and attempts to give each name as used by each person cited.