BIB_ID
347089
Accession number
MA 366.106
Creator
Hopkins, John Henry, 1792-1868.
Display Date
1823 July 11.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 24.2 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmark and traces of a seal to "Mathew Casey Esq. / Philadelphia."
Docketed on verso.
Mathew Carey, born in Dublin, was a printer, publisher, bookseller and political economist in Philadelphia.
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.
Mathew Carey, born in Dublin, was a printer, publisher, bookseller and political economist in Philadelphia.
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
Asking that he send more of his circulars and he will distribute them; recommending men in Pittsburgh who are "all Irish & perhaps will feel a sufficient degree of interest if personally addressed to be active;" saying that "In general the complaint of apathy is epidemic here on Irish affairs."
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