BIB_ID
347303
Accession number
MA 367.129
Creator
De Lancey, William Heathcote, 1797-1865.
Display Date
1825 Feb. 19.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 24.8 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Rev. John H. Hopkins / Pittsburg / Penn."
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
Expressing his concern that his labors are "useless"; praising Hopkins on the growth of his church; wondering whether their bishop [Bishop William White] will visit Pittsburgh after the Convention and commenting on his health; giving news of some of their fellow clergymen; mentioning a plan for "the formation of an education society for bringing forward indigent youths of talent and piety for the ministry"; discussing his views on Bible classes.
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