BIB_ID
347005
Accession number
MA 367.77
Creator
Otey, James Hervey, 1800-1863.
Display Date
1830.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 41.5 cm
Notes
Addressed to "the Rev. Francis L. Hawks / Philadelphia / Penn."
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.
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
Apologizing for not writing sooner; describing the congregations he founded in Tennessee; talking at length about his problems with keeping his parishioners in Nashville in 1825 (including a conflict with "the very lowest of all low churchmen"); complaining about a man named Howell who set back the growth of the Nashville congregation; mentioning Bishop [John Stark] Ravenscroft; giving details of the early days of his congregation in Franklin; discussing the "difficulties which generally impede the progress of [the Episcopal] Church in this country," including "gross ignorance of our principles," "old prejudices," the poverty of our clergymen," and "a scarcity of prayer books."
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