BIB_ID
347543
Accession number
MA 368.6
Creator
Elliott, Stephen, 1806-1866.
Display Date
1849 Dec. 26.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.2 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
Introducing him to a young lawyer; relating news of the Diocese and commenting on the state of the church; saying "In a community like Georgia too, the movements of the Tractarian party thro' the Union have given us a terrible [illegible]. They were beginning to desire something more conservative then Methodism &c but they have been alarmed at the defections from the Church & at such publications as Bp. Ives pastoral &c. And justly too, for I confess that was I outside of the Church, I should be very loth [sic] to come into it under present circumstances. I consider the conditions of things in several of the Dioceses as deplorable in the extreme."
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