BIB_ID
347180
Accession number
MA 366.125
Creator
Hopkins, John Henry, 1792-1868.
Display Date
1866 July 7.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 20.4 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. Perry was the rector of St. Michael's parish in Litchfield, Connecticut from 1864-1869 and the editor of the Journal of the General Convention of 1865.
Rev. Perry was the rector of St. Michael's parish in Litchfield, Connecticut from 1864-1869 and the editor of the Journal of the General Convention of 1865.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Discussing how the Clergy should be listed in the Journal [of the General Convention]; referring to the way to list the foreign missionaries; deferring to his judgment and that of his "younger brethren" on the details.
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