BIB_ID
347108
Accession number
MA 367.94
Creator
Kemper, Jackson, 1789-1870.
Display Date
1828 Jan. 24-Feb. 5.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 24.6 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Rev. John H. Hopkins / Pittsburgh / Pa."
Docketed.
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 postmark and trace of a seal.
Docketed.
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 postmark and trace of a seal.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Telling him that he thinks the Standing Committee will take "the most generous view of [Mr. Jones'] case" when he applies for holy orders; speculating that one of Hopkins's letter to him may have been lost in the mail; discussing a man named Hutchins who has arrived in Philadelphia; mentioning Bishop [Henry U.] Onderdonk's present tour; expressing his wish for a suspension of hostilities between different Bishops.
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