BIB_ID
348829
Accession number
MA 370.114
Creator
Talbot, Joseph C. (Joseph Cruickshank), 1816-1883.
Display Date
1859 Nov. 29.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 20.3 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
Expressing his dismay at seeing the "announcement of my decision to accept in the Ch. Record & copied by you and others. These notices drove me to a public announcement of that decision to my congregation before I was ready for it;" discussing a debt in his parish that must be repaid before he can accept; asking for his help in having the Bishops understand his reasons for delaying his acceptance and consecration.
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