BIB_ID
348289
Accession number
MA 370.4
Creator
Clark, Thomas M. (Thomas March), 1812-1903.
Display Date
1854 Nov. 6.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.1 cm
Notes
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.
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
Explaining his concerns over what appears to be a spiritual encounter with someone who has died; saying "... it was difficult to explain in accordance with the ordinary laws of physical nature; although, however, I still consider it far from impossible that there may be such laws, as yet unknown to us, by which all the mystery could be explained. In conducting this examination I did not put myself in the attitude of one seeking communion with the departed; but simply received the professed communications & scrutinized the phenomena as they were given;" adding that he has "no fear that any one, who knows the motive which prompted me to this investigation & the results to which my mind has been led, could for a moment suppose that I have done any thing to prejudice my position as a Minister of the Church."
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