BIB_ID
347203
Accession number
MA 367.111
Creator
McCoskry, Samuel Allen, 1804-1886.
Display Date
1838 Mar. 1.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 25.4 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Right Revd. John H. Hopkins. / Burlington. / Vermont."
Docketed.
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 postmark and trace of a seal.
Docketed.
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 postmark and trace of a seal.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Answering Hopkins's question about his "church principles" by assuring him that he is "High Church"; discussing his "trying" position in Philadelphia, and his efforts to "bring back, prudently & carefully, this people, to sound principles and practices"; giving details of his education and how he became bishop of Michigan.
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