BIB_ID
346537
Accession number
MA 367.4
Creator
McIlvaine, Charles Pettit, 1799-1873.
Display Date
182[7] Sept. 30.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 31.9 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Rev. George L. Bedell / Philadelphia."
Endorsed.
McIlvaine served as chaplain at the United States Military Academy at West Point from 1825 to 1827. The last number of the letter's year is illegible, but it is probably 1827 based on place of writing and the date of the controversy with Onderdonk discussed in the letter.
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.
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Endorsed.
McIlvaine served as chaplain at the United States Military Academy at West Point from 1825 to 1827. The last number of the letter's year is illegible, but it is probably 1827 based on place of writing and the date of the controversy with Onderdonk discussed in the letter.
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.
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Commenting on correspondence published by "the high church folks"; noting that the contents of [Henry U.] Onderdonk's "first letter should be left to speak for themselves -- no comment can make them more glaring"; complaining about the published letters ("What a contemptible business that italicizing and bracketing is!"); discussing how they should respond.
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