BIB_ID
346530
Accession number
MA 366.11
Creator
Chase, Philander, 1775-1852.
Display Date
1843 May 10.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 25.3 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal to "Rt. Rev. Jh. H. Hopkins, D.D. / Burlington Vt."
Bishop McIlvaine was the 2nd Bishop of Ohio and the 2nd President of Kenyon College. In 1843 to made an address to church members pleading for financial assistance for Kenyon College.
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.
Rev. Hopkins was the first Episcopal Bishop of Vermont.
The letter is written from "Jubilee", a college founded by Rev. Chase in 1839 and located 6 miles from Peoria, Illinois. Rev. Chase also founded Kenyon College in Ohio.
Bishop McIlvaine was the 2nd Bishop of Ohio and the 2nd President of Kenyon College. In 1843 to made an address to church members pleading for financial assistance for Kenyon College.
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.
Rev. Hopkins was the first Episcopal Bishop of Vermont.
The letter is written from "Jubilee", a college founded by Rev. Chase in 1839 and located 6 miles from Peoria, Illinois. Rev. Chase also founded Kenyon College in Ohio.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Defending his position with regard to a recent address by "Bp: M'ne" (Charles Pettit McIvaine) on the "present embarrassment of Kenyon College;" referring to the "case of William Sparrow's conspiracy;" saying that he is "too old to go thro' such another trial--I shall speak the truth: and others of my family will do the same: we have all suffered too much already by being silent."
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