BIB_ID
347335
Accession number
MA 366.143
Creator
Smith, B. B. (Benjamin Bosworth), 1794-1884.
Display Date
1854 Aug. 10.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.7 cm
Notes
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.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Concerning the charges brought against him; thanking him for his "defence of the House of Bishops against the unjust and injurious imputations of an able jurist whom I have long known, as not by any means calm and measured in his judgment or his language, when his passions or his prejudices are his advisers."
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