BIB_ID
349159
Accession number
MA 371.132
Creator
Williams, Channing Moore, 1829-1910.
Display Date
1874 Aug. 12.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 24.9 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 them that it "does not seem practicable for one person to give adequate Episcopal supervision to our Missions in China & Japan; requesting that the two Missionary Jurisdictions "be divded and each placed under its own Bishop"; recommending that they elect a bishop for China and leave him in Japan; suggesting that they might even want two bishops in China because of the size of the country and the different languages.
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