BIB_ID
345763
Accession number
MA 365.3
Creator
Bass, Edward, 1726-1803.
Display Date
1785 July 7.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 21.9 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
Asking about an approaching convention; wondering whether he knows "what is like to be done with the Liturgy either in the way of addition or diminution"; suggesting changes to the Liturgy; noting that "proper prayers must be substituted for the American government in the room of those for the King and Royal Family"; hoping that the church does not "run into a thousand little schisms to the destruction of all harmony & uniformity."
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