The Lady Elgin was a steamship that sailed on Lake Michigan. She was destroyed in a shipwreck off Highwood, Ill., on Sept. 8, 1860, one month after this letter was written.
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.
Telling him that he received a letter from Green Bay "begging [Hodges] would come and see them and judge for [himself] if the parish would suit [him]"; informing him that Brother Nicholas joined him at Milwaukee.