BIB_ID
348666
Accession number
MA 370.62
Creator
Bedell, Gregory Thurston, 1817-1892.
Display Date
1863 Nov. 16.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 21.5 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.
Rev. Smith was the 5th President of Kenyon College (1850-1854) and remained on the faculty until his resignation in 1863.
Rev. Smith was the 5th President of Kenyon College (1850-1854) and remained on the faculty until his resignation in 1863.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Saying he has just heard of his resignation from Bishop McIlvaine; saying that he hopes he will not "leave the hill" until he returns from his travels; wanting to arrange for "such a farewell as is due to one who has served Christ in our Institutions so faithfully and so well."
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