BIB_ID
348522
Accession number
MA 369.163
Creator
Potter, Horatio, 1802-1887.
Display Date
1866 Sept. 12.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.6 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.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Telling him that his engagements will not allow him to go south to participate in Southern consecrations; saying that it is "one of the first desires" of his heart to do what he can "to promote union & harmony between the different portions of the Church & of the country; explaining that he has not seen enough of his family and has not spent enough time in the chief city of his Diocese lately, and he does not feel it would be proper to go away on a journey.
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