BIB_ID
345319
Accession number
MA 364.4
Creator
Seabury, Samuel, 1729-1796.
Display Date
1786 Apr. 27 .
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 24.3 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 from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa before 1901.
Summary
Congratulating him on the birth of his daughter; expressing his gratitude to the "kind author of the lines you sent me, & the obligation is heightened by the consideration of their having been written by the pen of a lady. If the fair composer be known to you, will you say for me what is proper on the occasion. I shall implicitly follow her advice, from a firm & long founded opinion, that women are much better judges of those delicacies & proprieties of conduct which particular circumstances call for, & indeed of men in general, then we are. Besides the conduct marked out coincides exactly with my own Sentiments."
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