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Autograph letter signed : Richmond, to Rev. John H. Hopkins, 1844 Feb. 22.

BIB_ID
347782
Accession number
MA 368.43
Creator
Johns, John, 1796-1876.
Display Date
1844 Feb. 22.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 25.1 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmark and traces of a seal to "Right Rev. John H. Hopkins, D.D. / Burlington / Vermont."
Bishop Hopkins published "The Novelties which Disturb our Peace. Letters addressed to the Bishops, Clergy and Laity of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Philadelphia: James M. Campbell, 1844.
Docketed on verso.
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
Commenting, at length and in detail, on "The Novelties which Disturb our Peace."