BIB_ID
347139
Accession number
MA 367.98
Creator
Kemper, Jackson, 1789-1870.
Display Date
1837 Sept. 4.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 22.8 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Revd. Dr. Hawks / Rector of St. Thomas' / New-York / New-York."
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 trace of a seal.
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 trace of a seal.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Reporting that his "effort to be released has been unavailing"; discussing a letter that was meant to be confidential but was widely shared and is now being used as evidence against a bishop; commenting on the legality and morality of using the letter as evidence.
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