Autograph letter signed : Wilmington, Delaware, to Rt. Rev. J.H. Hopkins, 1851 Mar. 6.

Record ID: 
347634
Accession number: 
MA 368.17
Author: 
Lee, Alfred, 1807-1887.
Credit: 
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description: 
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.3 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.

Summary: 

Concerning the publication of recent proceedings; asking his opinion on the Florida election and questioning whether there were the requisite number of presbyters and whether "missionaries sustained from abroad meet the requirement of the Canon. A gentleman writes me that Dr. R[utledge]., the Bishop elect, is a man of ultra views, dry spirit and very ordinary talents. If so, he must be the very counterpart of our Bro. of the neighboring Diocese of S. Ca."

Provenance: 
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.