BIB_ID
346540
Accession number
MA 366.14
Creator
Chase, Philander, 1775-1852.
Display Date
1843 July 31.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 25.2 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal to "Rt. Rev. Bishop Hopkins / Burlington / Vermont;" with return address "Robinsnest, Ill / Aug. 1."
Bishop Hopkins was the first Bishop of 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 letter refers to the recent (July 8, 1843) ordination of Arthur Carey in New York. Bishop Benjamin T. Onderdonk of New York presided over the trial of Arthur Carey (June 30, 1843) on charges of Romanism for his involvement in the Oxford Movement. Carey was exonerated and subsequently ordained as a deacon.
Bishop Hopkins was the first Bishop of 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 letter refers to the recent (July 8, 1843) ordination of Arthur Carey in New York. Bishop Benjamin T. Onderdonk of New York presided over the trial of Arthur Carey (June 30, 1843) on charges of Romanism for his involvement in the Oxford Movement. Carey was exonerated and subsequently ordained as a deacon.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Asking if he is "satisfied with the ordination of Arthur Carey;" saying that his "private opinion is that if something decisive be not done and that speedily by the Bishops to put down the rising spirit of the Man of sin among us we perhaps shall never meet again, as heretofore, 'taking [illegible] counsel together and walking to the House of God in Company.;'" discussing the "application of the Christians in Texas for a Bishop that may form a National Church."
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