BIB_ID
348398
Accession number
MA 370.26
Creator
Bowman, Samuel, 1800-1861.
Display Date
1858 Aug. 28.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18.1 cm
Notes
A penciled notation above the salutation "Written 3 days after his Consecration Aug. 25, 1858."
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.
Written from 317 S. 16th Street, Philadelphia.
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.
Written from 317 S. 16th Street, Philadelphia.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Thanking him for his kind note; replying "with the frankness & cordiality with wh. I am sure it was written. That you or any other man should not have promoted my election never awakened, I assure you, & therefore has not left, the least trace of bitterness or resentment, either in my feelings or memory. Valuing as I do the right to think for myself & within the limits wh. the Ch. prescribes to us all--to follow the convictions of my own mind, I hope I shall never be so unreasonable or unjust, as either to reproach or separate from any man, who merely claims & exercises the same right;" saying that he hopes that will be able to work together.
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