BIB_ID
347110
Accession number
MA 366.111
Creator
Hopkins, John Henry, 1792-1868.
Display Date
1834 Oct. 13.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 30.9 cm
Notes
Attestation as a true copy, signed and dated at Arlington on October 16, 1834.
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.
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
Concerning the presentment against him and the conditions under which the trial will be held; explaining why his demands for the date and place of the trial cannot be met; determining that the case will go before the General Convention or the House of Bishops and they will "determine the mode of trial which shall be uniform throughout the Church. In no other way that I can think of is it possible to pay regard to my own convictions of ecclesiastical propriety on the one hand and avoid your ready accusation of 'making a law to suit your case' on the other;" asking that he console himself "by the hope that your case will furnish an occasion to settle the course of proceeding for the Church at large by the highest authority."
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