BIB_ID
347098
Accession number
MA 366.108
Creator
Hopkins, John Henry, 1792-1868.
Display Date
1827 Apr. 4.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 31.4 cm
Notes
A penciled notation on the address panel "copy of a letter to / April 1827."
Address panel to "Rev'd George Weller / Philadelphia."
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.
With a newspaper clipping of a letter, dated February 28, 1827, to the Gazette concerning the schooling of his children in response to a letter written under the signature "Plain Truth."
Address panel to "Rev'd George Weller / Philadelphia."
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.
With a newspaper clipping of a letter, dated February 28, 1827, to the Gazette concerning the schooling of his children in response to a letter written under the signature "Plain Truth."
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Offering his comments on the possibility of being considered for the office of Bishop; saying "I do not by any means think myself capable of grappling with such a fearful undertaking--I have neither the learning, the experience, nor the reputation which that high office ought to concentrate in order to have it worthily filled. I knowledge freely to you that I have at times thought I might be useful in it by the blessing of God, but in general I have viewed it as one of awful responsibility & of peculiar difficulty in the present state of the Diocese:" saying, however, that he would accept the position if it came from the Head of the Church, but he will not make any efforts to be considered; adding that "If I am nominated therefore, it will not be in consequence of any effort or management of mine. And if not nominated you may be assured that I shall find many reasons to rejoice (so far as I am personally concerned), in the dissapointment [sic]."
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