BIB_ID
346360
Accession number
MA 364.60
Creator
Madison, James, 1749-1812.
Display Date
1796 Mar. 17.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 23.0 cm
Notes
Address panel to "Right Rev'd Bishop White / Philadelphia."
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.
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.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Introducing him and Miss White to a young gentleman, Mr. Lee, who will be visiting Philadelphia; expressing concern that he does not see in the Journal of the Convention a Canon which gave the Bishops more authority over "Delinquent Clergymen. At present the Business is generally left to ye Vestries, who are too remiss whilst great Evils are experienced from ye Impunity with which a Clergyman may transgress;" adding that a Bishop should be responsible for the conduct of his Clergy.
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