BIB_ID
346526
Accession number
MA 366.10
Creator
Chase, Philander, 1775-1852.
Display Date
1840 July 7.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 24.9 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmark and traces of a seal to "Rt. Rev. Bishop Hopkins / Burlington / Vermont."
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.
The Rev. John Henry Hopkins was the first Bishop of Vermont and the eighth presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States.
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.
The Rev. John Henry Hopkins was the first Bishop of Vermont and the eighth presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Encouraging him to take heart though he is getting little support from Vermonters; telling him of the successes with Jubilee College; hoping to see him on his travels through Vermont.
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