BIB_ID
347992
Accession number
MA 368.87
Creator
Chase, Carlton, 1794-1870.
Display Date
1838 Oct. 26.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 24.7 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal to "Rt. Rev. John H. Hopkins D.D. / Burlington / Vt."
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.
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
Expressing his gratitude for their friendship; referring to his own ambitions in the Church and saying that he has "no ambition beyond Vermont--not beyond the duty and the honour of an humble presbyter of the same. I have given myself to your Diocese in general and to Immanuel Church Bellows Falls in particular, so long as the Green Mountains shall afford bread to me and mine. My roots have run deep and far, and I could not be transplanted without becoming sickly and useless;" commenting on his gifts as a Bishop; saying that his "forte is not in the matter of education but in that of visitation and preaching among the Churches. Wherever you go, you produce a prodigious effect for the Gospel and the Church. I know there is not your equal among the Bishops of America;" wishing him well on his trip to England; asking that he stop talking about resigning.
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