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Autograph letter signed : Gambier [Ohio], to Rev. J[ohn] H. Hopkins, 1846 May 7.

BIB_ID
346596
Accession number
MA 367.13
Creator
McIlvaine, Charles Pettit, 1799-1873.
Display Date
1846 May 7.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 25.5 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Right Rev. / J.H. Hopkins DD / 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 trace of a seal.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Thanking him for his recent "faithful address"; asking if his publisher can send copies to Gambier of his recent pastoral letter; discussing current conflicts in the Episcopal Church.