BIB_ID
347993
Accession number
MA 368.88
Creator
Chase, Carlton, 1794-1870.
Display Date
1843 Oct. 19.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 22.3 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmark and traces of a seal to "Rt. Rev. John H. Hopkins D.D. / Burlington / Vermont"
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
Asking for advice on his election to the Episcopate of New Hampshire; saying that his "attachments in this parish and in this Diocese are the growth of many years, and are strong. Nevertheless, if it is the Lord's will to remove me, I trust I shall be strengthened to make the necessary sacrifice."
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