BIB_ID
347031
Accession number
MA 366.96
Creator
Onderdonk, Benjamin T. (Benjamin Tredwell), 1791-1861.
Display Date
1840 Dec. 17.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 24.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmark and traces of a seal to "The Right Rev: / John H. Hopkins, D.D. / Burlington / Vermont."
Bishop Hopkins suffered a severe financial setback in the financial crisis of 1839, causing him to close the Vermont Episcopal Institute, and forcing his family into significantly reduced circumstances.
Docketed 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.
Bishop Hopkins suffered a severe financial setback in the financial crisis of 1839, causing him to close the Vermont Episcopal Institute, and forcing his family into significantly reduced circumstances.
Docketed 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.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Discussing, at length and in detail, his arguments against a possible resignation by Bishop Hopkins; setting forth the commitments of ordination.
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