Autograph letter signed : Augusta, Georgia, to J.H. Hopkins, Jr., 1865 Aug. 25.

Concerning the efforts to reunify the northern and southern churches; saying "The Dioceses at the South must communicate with each other before we can act & we cannot have such intercourse yet. You have no conception of the difficulty of intercourse, for not only are we deprived of Rail road communication, but such is the scarcity of horses & mules that it is with great trouble we can find conveyance in any direction. These things are gradually remedying themselves, but for the present, it renders it almost impossible for the Bishops to interchange opinions;" saying he will suggest that a committee of the southern Bishops represent them informally at the General Convention in Philadelphia but he not sure how the suggestion will be received; saying he hopes that will be sufficient to show the rest of the Church of their willingness to unify; expressing his desire for the "recognition and confirmation of certain acts which were done by us as an ecclesiastical body. There is nothing in this requirement to delay re-union beyond the 1st December. We shall then have nearly three years to work together and interchange acts of good fellowship before we meet. I never yet saw two persons come together to talk over a quarrel, (if ours can be called, ecclesiastically, a quarrel) without making things worse. Let the adjustment be made thro' Committees & in three years we shall be able to meet with calmer feelings and prepared to be more just to one another."