BIB_ID
348308
Accession number
MA 369.128
Creator
Scott, Thomas Fielding, 1807-1867.
Display Date
1865 Aug. 23.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (7 p.) ; 30.5 cm
Notes
Docketed.
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
Offering recommendations for the more efficient administration of the Diocese of Oregon; recommending that Oregon and the Washington Territory be combined, but that the part of both which lies east of the Cascade Mountains be included with Idaho and Montana; advocating for a second bishop to cover the Northwest; discussing other ways to organize Dioceses in the West; saying that he would have attended their present meeting, but the distance and expense made this impracticable; discussing the Episcopal Church's response to and his own feelings about the Civil War.
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