BIB_ID
348254
Accession number
MA 368.147
Creator
Burgess, George, 1809-1866.
Display Date
1865 July 5.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20.0 cm + with envelope
Notes
Docketed on address panel of envelope.
Envelope with postmark and stamp and addressed to "The Right Reverend / John H. Hopkins, D.D. / Burlington / Vermont."
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.
Envelope with postmark and stamp and addressed to "The Right Reverend / John H. Hopkins, D.D. / Burlington / Vermont."
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
Saying he cannot sign his "Letter proposed to be addressed to the Southern Bishops;" saying that though he hopes that the Southern Bishops will attend the General Convention, he could not condone the presence of the Bishop of Georgia [Rev Stephen Elliott] "until he shall have explicitly recanted that public and awful appeal to the supreme judgment against all of us, as guilty of every atrocity which the war had brought forth."
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