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Autograph letter signed with initials : Burlington, to his son, 1862 Dec. 17.

BIB_ID
347151
Accession number
MA 366.118
Creator
Hopkins, John Henry, 1792-1868.
Display Date
1862 Dec. 17.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20.6 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. John Henry Hopkins, Jr. was the editor of the Church Journal from 1853-1868.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Saying he has come upon a letter that belongs to him; adding, in a postscript, a clarification of a published error concerning his attendance at the General Convention of 1832 and Bishop White's Pastoral Letter on Nullification delivered at that Convention.