BIB_ID
347898
Accession number
MA 368.57
Creator
Eastburn, Manton, 1801-1872.
Display Date
1846 Apr. 14.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.0 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
Referring to the fact that they were both born in England; saying that "This country is a great country; with mighty powers and capacities; and wonderfully favored by that Providence, whom, I tremble to think, its inhabitants seem to be Daily more & more forgetting;" adding "The Spirit seems to be withdrawn, both from the ministry of Church Clergy & Dissenters. And as for own Church, the progress of Popery in the midst of it, in the shape of Oxfordism, is a mournful proof how prepared was the soil previously, to receive the poison. God help & deliver us;" offering to write to the Bishop of Montreal on behalf of his application.
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