BIB_ID
346771
Accession number
MA 366.49
Creator
Onderdonk, Henry U. (Henry Ustick), 1789-1858.
Display Date
1824 Mar. 12.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 32.8 cm
Notes
A charter was granted for Geneva College in 1824 and it would be renamed Hobart College in 1851.
Address panel with traces of a seal to "The Right Rev: / John Henry Hobart D.D."
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.
Address panel with traces of a seal to "The Right Rev: / John Henry Hobart D.D."
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
Asking for his opinion on the merits of abolishing "The Branch School of the Seminary" and the creation of Geneva College; hoping to hear from him before the meeting of the school Trustees in July; discussing the expense for seminary students who must live in New York and the merits of reducing costs by having a seminary outside of New York City.
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