BIB_ID
347138
Accession number
MA 366.115
Creator
Hopkins, John Henry, 1792-1868.
Display Date
1853 June 20.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 24.6 cm
Notes
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.
Rev. Stevens was the rector of St. Andrew's Church, Philadelphia and would serve as the 4th Bishop of Pennsylvania from 1865-1887.
Rev. Stevens was the rector of St. Andrew's Church, Philadelphia and would serve as the 4th Bishop of Pennsylvania from 1865-1887.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Responding to his request saying that his schedule is so full with the "New Jersey Trial & the General Convention which will probably keep me from home during two months at least that I am very unwilling to add any thing more to this long though necessary absence; but saying that despite his unwillingness to take on another project, "your proposed course is a very happy idea and doubtless calculated to do great good, if the execution bears any fair proportion to the plan;" agreeing to deliver a speech if it can be scheduled during the time he is attending the General Convention; adding that the "subject I have adopted is one of those for which you have set me down, No. 16 being 'The Historical evidences of Christianity.'"
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