BIB_ID
347423
Accession number
MA 366.158
Creator
Smith, B. B. (Benjamin Bosworth), 1794-1884.
Display Date
1868 Aug. 28.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20.9 cm
Notes
Bishop Williams was the 4th Bishop of Connecticut.
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.
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
Hoping to involve several Bishops in the creation of a Pastoral Letter; "trying to obtain of several of the Bishops not topics merely, but some subject nearest each one's heart, drawn out in such a way as to be incorporated in the Pastoral;" adding, in a lengthy postscript, his arguments against of using Trinity Church for the opening session [of the General Convention].
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