BIB_ID
346732
Accession number
MA 367.35
Creator
McIlvaine, Charles Pettit, 1799-1873.
Display Date
[1855 Jan. 16].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 19.8 cm
Notes
Docketed; date is from docket.
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.
The recipient is based on McIlvaine's mention of "your answer to Milner." Hopkins had recently published The End of Controversy Controverted: a Refutation of Milner's "End of Controversy" (New York: Pudney & Russell, 1854).
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.
The recipient is based on McIlvaine's mention of "your answer to Milner." Hopkins had recently published The End of Controversy Controverted: a Refutation of Milner's "End of Controversy" (New York: Pudney & Russell, 1854).
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Thanking him for his "defence of Bp. [William] Meade and all of us who voted against the removal of the suspension of Bp. H.U.O." [Henry U. Onderdonk]; also thanking him for his "answer to [John] Milner," noting that "the great calumniator and arch-perverter ... has never been so drubbed before"; criticizing Catholicism.
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