BIB_ID
347067
Accession number
MA 366.102
Creator
Ives, L. Silliman (Levi Silliman), 1797-1867.
Display Date
1831 July 29.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 24.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmark and traces of a seal to "the Rev John H. Hopkins / care of Rev: G.W. Doane / Boston."
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
Regretting that he missed an opportunity to see him; saying he has "many things to say to you;" asking him to write to him "before I leave for the frightful south & let me know anything & every thing at all interesting to the general interests of the church -- I am not for innovations, but for improvements--not for wandering from the "old paths" but for setting into them."
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