BIB_ID
347302
Accession number
MA 367.128
Creator
De Lancey, William Heathcote, 1797-1865.
Display Date
1824 Mar. 3.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 25.2 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Rev. John H. Hopkins / Pittsburg / Pennsylvania."
Docketed.
Final page includes crossed writing.
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.
Final page includes crossed writing.
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
Telling him that he has "made up a small parcel of journals & pamphlets" for him that he intends to leave with Hopkins's father to forward to him; discussing the next state Convention in New York; commenting on Hopkins's "manner of conducting the devotional exercises of [his] Bible Class"; reporting that he has a new baby daughter but his wife is not very well.
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