BIB_ID
347618
Accession number
MA 368.13
Creator
Elliott, Stephen, 1806-1866.
Display Date
1866 Jan. 30.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.4 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
Expressing his understanding for the pressure he was under during the war and appreciating that they "had a large part of your Heart;" saying he might have wished that the war ended differently, "but as God has determined it otherwise, I acquiesce;" thanking him for his part in the General Convention and saying the outcome was "all that could have been asked ... ;" asking "How come Pennsylvania took so fierce against the South?" commenting on the conditions in the South; criticizing the work of the Freedman's Bureau in racist and paternalistic terms: "The freedmen's bureau is doing more mischief than it is possible to conceive ... The South is quite willing to act fairly to the black race, but the negroes are left in a continual ferment by the interference of this irresponsible bureau which is merely making jobs for the Northern men"; reporting on the status of the individual southern dioceses with regard to unification of the church.
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