BIB_ID
349312
Accession number
MA 372.69
Creator
Beckwith, John W. (John Watrous), 1831-1890.
Display Date
1866 Sept. 18.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20.6 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.
The recipient is not identified in the salutation, but Bishop Beckwith refers to the recipient as the Presiding Bishop; Bishop Hopkins was the Presiding Bishop from 1865-1868.
The recipient is not identified in the salutation, but Bishop Beckwith refers to the recipient as the Presiding Bishop; Bishop Hopkins was the Presiding Bishop from 1865-1868.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Encouraging him to accept the invitation of the Standing Committee [of Louisiana] for the consecration of the Bishop of Louisiana who wishes to be consecrated in New Orleans; saying that "Aside from the fact that, for the first time, they will (if I may so speak) see the Apostolic succession as a living reality, they will also see among them the Presiding Bp. from whom, but a short time since, they were legislatively separate & that Bp. too the one whom of all the Northern Bps. they admire most, & who, therefore, can I think, do most. under God, to perfect the reunion with wh. through love of the Ch, they have so lately entered. Yr. visit, my dear Bp, seems to me to be laden with promises of good to the Ch. I hope therefore you will not think me presumptuous when I beg that you will, is possible, pay us a visit & consecrate for us, in our midst, the man whom God has sent to preside over our diocese."
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