BIB_ID
347024
Accession number
MA 366.94
Creator
Onderdonk, Benjamin T. (Benjamin Tredwell), 1791-1861.
Display Date
1837 Dec. 13.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 24.7 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal to "Rev. Dr. Hawks, / Houston Street."
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.
Written from Whitehall Street.
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.
Written from Whitehall Street.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Desiring to schedule a meeting of the Standing Committee "to prepare the way for the matriculation on Sunday evening of Messrs. McIlvaine and Moore, whose certificates of literary examination will be forthcoming in a day or two;" discussing the issue of canonical dispensations and his disagreement with him over its interpretation and implementation.
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