BIB_ID
129382
Accession number
MA 365.2
Creator
Bass, Edward, 1726-1803.
Display Date
1784 June 21.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 19.9 cm
Notes
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.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Discussing the Philadelphia Convention; noting that "the service and discipline of our church are capable of improvement," but that "reformation ... is a nice & delicate affair & not to be ... attempted by rough hands"; telling him that he thinks it would be proper to wait for the arrival of a bishop before having a meeting of clergy in Massachusetts; mentioning [Samuel] Seabury and asking about his trip to England for consecration.
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