Autograph letter : Memphis, to Revd. John H. Hopkins, 1862 Nov.

Giving details of his illness last spring and summer; apologizing because another clergyman misplaced Hopkins's last letter to him; telling him about the convention at Columbia in Oct. 1861, and giving his opinion about what should be done regarding the Episcopal Church now that the "dissolution of the Union" has occurred; suggesting that the Church should be organized into Provincial Synods under a General Council; referring to President Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation; describing in detail the self-emancipation of the individuals he had enslaved, who he characterizes as "my Negro property"; writing at length about what he portrays as the advantages they enjoyed under slavery; adding "They are now under Federal protection contrary to the laws of the state"; saying that he does not value their service, but he does regret that they took with them two young children who now face the "inevitable doom" of "prostitution and ruin"; condemning the North for its actions against the South at length.