BIB_ID
347028
Accession number
MA 367.84
Creator
Otey, James Hervey, 1800-1863.
Display Date
1858 Apr. 21.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 24.1 cm
Notes
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.
Recipient is based on the contents of the letter: "I have too much of the Hopkins' blood in my veins for that. Do you know that the coat of arms of my father's maternal ancestors (his mother was a Hopkins) is a burning town, the same with your father's? Thus we 'are of kin.'"
Recipient is based on the contents of the letter: "I have too much of the Hopkins' blood in my veins for that. Do you know that the coat of arms of my father's maternal ancestors (his mother was a Hopkins) is a burning town, the same with your father's? Thus we 'are of kin.'"
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Thanking him for withholding Dr. Ridley's communication from the press; giving details of the loss of his house and most of his land due to financial problems.
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