Autograph letter signed : Newburyport [Mass.], to Revd. Dr. [Samuel] Parker, 1791 June 15.

Record ID: 
345817
Accession number: 
MA 365.10
Author: 
Bass, Edward, 1726-1803.
Credit: 
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description: 
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 18.1 cm
Notes: 

Addressed to "The Revd. Dr. Parker / Boston."
Docketed.
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.

Summary: 

Mentioning difficulties in printing a book for the Church; noting that they should "adhere steadfastly to [their] Liturgy"; observing that the Dissenters "should conform to us, not we to them."

Provenance: 
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.