BIB_ID
346715
Accession number
MA 367.34
Creator
McIlvaine, Charles Pettit, 1799-1873.
Display Date
1855 Apr. 3.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (9 p.) ; 19.8 cm
Notes
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 last letter and discussing its contents; commenting on ways to improve the Church; wishing for "a revival among our clergy"; emphasizing that Episcopalians "excell all clergy ... in the purity, simplicity & faithfulness of their Gospel-preaching"; addressing Stevens's belief that Kenyon College needs "a larger range of study"; giving details of various teachers at Kenyon; praising Kenyon over Princeton, Yale, and Harvard.
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