BIB_ID
348843
Accession number
MA 371.53
Creator
Coxe, A. Cleveland (Arthur Cleveland), 1818-1896.
Display Date
1877 June 8.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.8 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
Discussing Rev. [Daniel Falloon] Hutchinson, a deposed minister who is trying to be restored to the ministry; expressing his concern that Hutchinson may be "guilty of ... the awful sin of ministering the Word & sacrament, while canonically deprived of all rights & title to do so -- inflicting a grevious scandal on discipline, &, also, doing injury to innocent persons who would not, willingly, have communicated with a deposed priest"; saying that "if these facts be so," he declines "to have any part in his restoration" and protests "against his being received, again, among the priests of the Church, as a brother in good standing."
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