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Autograph letter signed : Gambier [Ohio], to Rev. John H. Hopkins, 1844 Feb. 7.

BIB_ID
346565
Accession number
MA 367.10
Creator
McIlvaine, Charles Pettit, 1799-1873.
Display Date
1844 Feb. 7.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 25 cm
Notes
Addressed to "the Right Rev. / John H. Hopkins, D.D. / Burlington / Vermont."
Docketed.
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 seal.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Discussing letters that were recently published; alluding to lectures that Hopkins was forbidden from preaching in Philadelphia; asking how they should respond to a circular from the bishop of New York (Benjamin T. Onderdonk).