Fragment of an autograph letter signed : place not specified, to Samuel Parker, 1790 Jan. 25.

Address panel to "Rev. S. Parker, D.D. / Rector of Trinity Church / Boston;" also stamped "New York Feb. 28."
Bound with a four-page fragment of a manuscript letter, in an unknown hand, which precedes this fragment but there is no published confirmation that the one page fragment of this record, is actually part of the four-page fragment with which it is bound; the four-page fragment was published in the Journals of the General Conventions of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, Volume I; see citation below; the published letter indicates that the four-page fragment was from Rev. White to Rev. Parker.
Docketed on verso as "Rt. Rev'd Bish'p White / Jan'ry 25, 1790;" date of writing from docket.
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 four-page fragment explains the position of the Episcopal clergy in his state with regard to the formation of a national union of Episcopal Churches; discussing the organization of clergy and laity within each State and within a continental union; discussing the merits of including the Laity in the governance of the Church.