BIB_ID
347196
Accession number
MA 366.129
Creator
Hopkins, John Henry, 1792-1868.
Display Date
1867 Nov. 15.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (4 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. John Henry Hopkins, Jr. was the editor of the Church Journal, 1853-1868.
The correspondence with the Bishop of Virginia (Bishop Johns) concerned Bishop Johns' request for an Assistant Bishop owing to his advanced age and infirmities.
Rev. John Henry Hopkins, Jr. was the editor of the Church Journal, 1853-1868.
The correspondence with the Bishop of Virginia (Bishop Johns) concerned Bishop Johns' request for an Assistant Bishop owing to his advanced age and infirmities.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Consenting to have his reply to Dean Stanley printed in the Church Journal; saying that the Archbishop [of Canterbury] refused to provide him with a Record of the Council, but was considering providing it to the House of Bishops; questioning the merits of that decision; saying he was pleasantly surprised to see that he was given credit by the Scottish clergy for being the first to suggest the Pan Anglican Council "18 years ago! I had quite forgotten it;" referring, in a postscript, to his correspondence with the Bishop of Virginia and characterizing it as "kindly."
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