BIB_ID
106815
Accession number
MA 365.119
Creator
Croes, John, 1762-1832.
Display Date
1825 Feb. 14.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Addressed to "The Right Revd. / John Henry Hobart D.D. / Bishop of the Diocese of New York."
Docketed.
Part of a 12-volume collection of Autographs and Manuscripts of Bishops of The Protestant Episcopal Church (MA 364-375). The arrangement of the collection is by Bishops in the order of their consecration and chronological within their portion of the collection. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
With trace of a seal.
Docketed.
Part of a 12-volume collection of Autographs and Manuscripts of Bishops of The Protestant Episcopal Church (MA 364-375). The arrangement of the collection is by Bishops in the order of their consecration and chronological within their portion of the collection. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
With trace of a seal.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Commenting on Hobart's health and hoping he will be able to return to the United States soon; giving an account of ordinations in Hobart's absence; giving news of his sons; mentioning Bishop [Philander] Chase, and criticizing him for "throwing himself into the hands of the low church party in England"; noting that he has "lost all [his] respect for" Chase and "regret[s] exceedingly that he was ever consecrated."
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