BIB_ID
346546
Accession number
MA 366.15
Creator
Chase, Philander, 1775-1852.
Display Date
1844 Feb. 5.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 25.2 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmark and return address to "Rt. Rev. Bishop Hopkins / care of the Rev. Herman Norton / Philadelphia / Pen'a;" the address has been crossed through and then, written in an unknown hand, "Burlington / Vt;" return address as "RobinsNest, Ill / 6 Feb."
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 "mistake" to which Bishop Chase refers appears to have been corrected on page 67 of the 1844 edition of "The Novelties which disturb our peace: letters addressed to the bishops, clergy & laity of the Protestant Episcopal Church" by Rev. John Henry Hopkins, published in Philadelphia by James M. Campbell & Co., 1844.
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 "mistake" to which Bishop Chase refers appears to have been corrected on page 67 of the 1844 edition of "The Novelties which disturb our peace: letters addressed to the bishops, clergy & laity of the Protestant Episcopal Church" by Rev. John Henry Hopkins, published in Philadelphia by James M. Campbell & Co., 1844.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Disputing his reference to the founding of a theological seminary at Kenyon College; saying that he is "sorry you have misstated the case of the "Ohio Seminary to found which I went to Eng'd to obtain the necessary funds: Your words are 'in the erection of Kenyon College with its attached Theological Seminary'--the fact was not so;" asking him to "correct this mistake in your next and all succeeding editions of your excellent work".... to read "the founding of a Theological Seminary in the Diocese of Ohio;" adding a note marked"Private" concerning their mutual opposition to Romanism in the church.
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