BIB_ID
347880
Accession number
MA 369.8
Creator
Upfold, George, 1796-1872.
Display Date
1850 Jan. 21.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 25 cm
Notes
Docketed.
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.
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
Thanking him for his condolences on the recent death of his mother; lamenting that he was not with his mother in her "departing hour"; giving details of his next trip around Indiana; telling him that he has resigned his rectorship in Madison but continues to be in charge of the parish until Easter; commenting on a publication he recently received, the "Motto"; discussing the case of Bishop [Levi Silliman] Ives, who has been accused of heresy in a pamphlet that Upfold conjectures was penned by Bishop [Cicero Stephens] Hawks.
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