BIB_ID
346846
Accession number
MA 366.72
Creator
Meade, William, 1789-1862.
Display Date
[1839] April 14.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 25.3 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmark (Lovingston) and traces of a seal to "The Right Rev'd / John Henry Hopkins, D.D. / Burlington / Vermont."
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.
Year of writing from docket on verso.
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.
Year of writing from docket on verso.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Asking for his advice in establishing a high school near the Seminary in Alexandria, "for the double purpose of preparing our candidates for the Seminary & of making a full trial of religion in connection with literary education upon the minds of our youth. I have long thought that such an Institution might be made to answer all most all the most important ends of a College, without the fearful exposure to the many temptations of Colleges."
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