BIB_ID
128696
Accession number
MA 364.69
Creator
Claggett, Thomas John, 1743-1816.
Display Date
1814 June 30.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 18.5 cm
Notes
Address panel to "The Rev'd / Doct'r James Kemp / City of Baltimore."
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, Rev. James Kemp, would become the 2nd Bishop of Maryland upon the death of Bishop Claggett.
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, Rev. James Kemp, would become the 2nd Bishop of Maryland upon the death of Bishop Claggett.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Saying he has been very ill and confined to his bed but that he would very much like to see him; asking if he might come to him; lamenting the divisions within the churches of Maryland; wishing he could do something to restore the "peace and quietness and would gladly do anything in my power consistent with the dictates of my conscience candidly expressed to you in my last letter to affect this object..."
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