BIB_ID
346550
Accession number
MA 366.16
Creator
Chase, Philander, 1775-1852.
Display Date
1844 Feb. 15.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 25.3 cm
Notes
Bishop Benjamin T. Onderdonk (Bishop of New York) presided over the trial (June 30, 1843) of Arthur Carey on charges of Romanism for his support of the Oxford Movement. Carey was exonerated and subsequently ordained as a deacon (July 8, 1843).
Bishop Onderdonk was the Bishop of New York from 1830-1861.
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.
Bishop Onderdonk was the Bishop of New York from 1830-1861.
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.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Thanking him for his letter to all the Bishops regarding an investigation into the ordination of Arthur Carey; apologizing for the impression he may have given in a recent pamphlet that it applied "solely to yourself. You are under a mistake here. My remarks were in reference to the whole case of our apparent approximations to the Church of Rome including not only your ordination of Mr. Cary [sic] but also what was published from time to time in your accredited periodical The Churchman eulogizing the British Critic & similar writings and even the Map-Book itself;" comparing the ordination to a fire set on the prairie and suggesting it must be extinguished and following that it must be determined "how it happened, who did it and as to what intention the fire was set?;" offering to sit on the trial "in my canonical place" and saying he bears no ill will to him personally and only wishes to act in the best interests of the Church.
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