BIB_ID
120066
Accession number
MA 364.35
Creator
White, William, 1748-1836.
Display Date
1828 Dec. 24.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 25.4 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmark to "Rev'd John H. Hopkins / Pittsburg / Penns;" docketed on address panel.
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.
The recipient, John Henry Hopkins, was the first Episcopal Bishop of Vermont and the 8th presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States.
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.
The recipient, John Henry Hopkins, was the first Episcopal Bishop of Vermont and the 8th presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa before 1901.
Summary
Responding to his letter "designed as well for Bp: Onderdonk;" saying that "we have only imperfect Means of judging. On one Point, however, we can speak clearly. It is, that having much valued your Efficiency in extending ye Church in ye western Counties, & promising to ourselves an Increase of it's Usefulness, we shall exceedingly regret your being severed from ye Diocese. As to what may be ye Prospect of superior Usefulness in ye Department to which you are invited, we are incompetent Judges of it."
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