BIB_ID
347060
Accession number
MA 366.99
Creator
Ives, L. Silliman (Levi Silliman), 1797-1867.
Display Date
1824 June 2.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 24.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal to "Rt. Rev. / John Henry Hobart / Bishop of New York."
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.
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
Referring to the "real and threatened difficulties in our Diocese--I fear every true friend of the Chh has too much reason to tremble for its interests in America;" saying he learned, "that, at a meeting of the clergy on Saturday evening, sentiments & feelings were developed in the radical party.....they made the most open account of their determinations either to reform or divide the chh. in the United States;" reporting that his family is all well.
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