BIB_ID
120068
Accession number
MA 364.40
Creator
White, William, 1748-1836.
Display Date
1832 Aug. 18.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 25.0 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark to "Rev'd John H. Hopkins / D.D. / Cambridge / Massachusetts."
Docketed on verso.
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 elected as the first Episcopal Bishop of Vermont in May 1832; prior to the election he was an Assistant Minister at Trinity Church, Boston.
Docketed on verso.
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 elected as the first Episcopal Bishop of Vermont in May 1832; prior to the election he was an Assistant Minister at Trinity Church, Boston.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa before 1901.
Summary
Concerning the reasons for the separation of Vermont from the Eastern Diocese under Bishop Griswold; saying that "The Time must come, & considering our rapidly increasing Population, it may not be very distant, when our large dioceses will reasonably claim to be divided. It will be an insurmountable difficulty in ye Way, if a Bp: cannot resign a Part of his Charge for ye greater Benefit of ye whole of it;" responding to his [Hopkins'] concerns of having to change his residence "having laid out so large a Portion of your Means, with View which must undergo a considerable Change, in consequence of a Change of Residence."
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