BIB_ID
348174
Accession number
MA 368.129
Creator
Potter, Alonzo, 1800-1865.
Display Date
1852 Sept. 17.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.6 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.
The trial referred to in this letter was the trial of Bishop George Washington Doane, Bishop of New Jersey; the trial began on October 7, 1852 in Camden, New Jersey.
The trial referred to in this letter was the trial of Bishop George Washington Doane, Bishop of New Jersey; the trial began on October 7, 1852 in Camden, New Jersey.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Saying he has heard that he had a misunderstanding twenty years ago with the Bishop of New Jersey and because of that he means to absent himself from the trial; encouraging him to take part as his "presence as a Law Adviser of the Court would be of great service--The rights of the accused may be jeopardised if his case is looked at only from the Lay standpoint or clerical standpoint without those guards & qualifications which the juridical experience of ages has adjudged to be necessary & proper;" adding in a postscript that he would like to offer a course of sermons over the fall and winter and asks if he would be willing to deliver one.
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