BIB_ID
345387
Accession number
MA 364.6
Creator
White, William, 1748-1836.
Display Date
1787 May 21 .
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 31.5 cm
Notes
Address panel to "The Rev. Mr. Samuel Parker / Rector of 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.
With the addition of a postscript by Bishop Seabury, the entire letter was sent to the Rev. Samuel Parker.
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.
With the addition of a postscript by Bishop Seabury, the entire letter was sent to the Rev. Samuel Parker.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa before 1901.
Summary
Saying how much he would like to see all the members of "our communion throughout the United States connected in one System of Ecclesiastical Government;" saying he has been informed that "the Bishop and Clergy of Connecticut think our proposed Ecclesiastical constitution essentially wrong;" but adding that they have gathered significant consensus to their proposals and is hoping he can come to an agreement with Bishop Seabury; saying that with regard to the Liturgy, "if it should be thought desirable by the General Body of our Church to adhere to the English Book of Common prayer (the political parts excepted), I shall be one of the first after the appearance of such a disposition to comply with it most punctually;" discussing his concerns over the review process and their differing opinions with regard to it; concluding by saying he hopes they can be candid with one another "to promote the Interest of our holy Religion;" writing in a postscript to this letter that would be sent to Rev Parker, Seabury says that the letter "is in answer to one from me to him, in which I proposed a personal interview with him & Bp. Provost [sic], previously to any decided steps being taken respecting the Liturgy & Government of the Church; I mentioned the old Liturgy as the most likely bond of union;" saying he sends it with no comment and would like his opinion; concluding by saying that his "mention of the Chapel at Boston I consider merely as banter, as I should suppose myself the last person in the States who would be invited thither, & that Church as the most unlikely, under its present situation, to suit my ideas of doctrine or discipline."
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