BIB_ID
347542
Accession number
MA 368.5
Creator
Elliott, Stephen, 1806-1866.
Display Date
1845 Mar. 31.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmark and traces of a seal to "Dr. William B. Stevens / Professor / Athens / Georgia."
It is possible that the reference to "poor Jackson" is to the ill health of President Andrew Jackson in the months before his death in June 1845.
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.
It is possible that the reference to "poor Jackson" is to the ill health of President Andrew Jackson in the months before his death in June 1845.
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
Replying to his request for critical feedback on a proposed publication on the Parables; offering a detailed critique on the merits of such a publication; questioning whether he wants to take on such a broad topic that would bring with it intense scrutiny concerning its scholarship; asking if it would be "wise for one so young to the Ministry to commit himself to views which he might afterwards live to repent of & wish blotted out?" saying that his comments are "directed against immediate publication" but encouraging him to continue to study the subject and broaden and deepen his scholarship; asking if he has heard of the "wretched fate of poor Jackson."
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