In 1838 appeared Athwold, a Romaunt, and Saint Jonathan, the Lay of the Scald, designed as the commencement of a semi-humorous poem, in the Don Juan style.

In the same year he published Christian Ballads, a collection of poems, suggested for the most part by the holy seasons and services of his church.

"[3] He was ordained deacon on June 27, 1841[4] by Bishop Benjamin T. Onderdonk in St. Paul's Chapel,[5] priest on September 25, 1842, at St. John's Episcopal Church (Hartford, Connecticut).

[4] As a deacon he took charge of St. Anne's church, Morrisania, where he wrote his poem, Halloween, privately printed in 1842.

While there he published a dramatic poem Saul: a mystery, of the same kind as his earlier productions but at much greater length.

[8] Anglican Orders was a series of papers, originally contributed to the Paris journal, Union Chrétienne.

An open letter to Pius IX (1869) was in answer to the brief convoking the first Vatican Council, and was widely read and translated into many languages in Europe.

L'Episcopat de l'Occident was published at Paris in 1872 and contained a history of the Church of England and a refutation of Roman Catholic attacks.

He received a doctorate in divinity from St. James College, Hagerstown, Maryland, in 1856; again from Trinity, Hartford, Connecticut, in 1868, and again from Durham University in the United Kingdom in 1888.

Late in the year he visited the island, consecrating a church, ordaining six priests and five deacons, holding a convocation of the clergy and administering confirmation to a large number of candidates.