BIB_ID
347295
Accession number
MA 366.140
Creator
Smith, B. B. (Benjamin Bosworth), 1794-1884.
Display Date
1844 Feb. 6.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 24.3 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmark and traces of a seal to "Rt. Rev. J.H. Hopkins, D.D. / Burlington, Vt."
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.
Place of writing from postmark.
Written from the "Diocese of Ky."
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.
Place of writing from postmark.
Written from the "Diocese of Ky."
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Suggesting that morning service be shortened as it appears to be "the one great obstacle in the growth of the Church;" suggesting a return to the more primitive model; proposing considerations for a Bill he [Hopkins] put forth at the last meeting of the House of Bishops.
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