BIB_ID
347230
Accession number
MA 366.133
Creator
Smith, B. B. (Benjamin Bosworth), 1794-1884.
Display Date
1830 Aug. 10.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 24.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmark and traces of a seal to "Rev. J.H. Hopkins / Pittsburgh, / Pa."
Docketed on verso.
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. Smith was the editor of the Philadelphia Recorder from 1828-1830; he would become the rector of Christ Church, Lexington, Kentucky later that year.
Docketed on verso.
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. Smith was the editor of the Philadelphia Recorder from 1828-1830; he would become the rector of Christ Church, Lexington, Kentucky later that year.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Referring to the financial success of the Recorder; discussing his [Rev. Hopkins] skepticism with respect to a "self-supporting school; for I know of nothing so paralyzing as unbelief. I grant you, however, that it is an experiment, and one most stern and arduous. Everything depends on securing the proper person as Superintendent;" mentioning that "the eyes of the Lexington, Ky. people have been turned on me for the vacancy Dr. C. has left them. What ought I to do if they call me? My wish is to not let go of the Recorder & Missionary Society under their present pacific auspices else some one who has not been taught prudence by the many hard knocks as myself should get hold of them. Otherwise--in all temporal respects, and probably as to the field of usefulness, I should be inclined to go."
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