BIB_ID
349815
Accession number
MA 372.177
Creator
Whitaker, Ozi William, 1830-1911.
Display Date
1869 Feb. 3.
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
Acknowledging receipt of the letter confirming his election to the Bishopric of Arizona and Nevada; saying "...I have delayed making any answer until this time for the reason that I have found the decision to accept, or to decline the app't, not easy, but very hard indeed. I sh'd have greatly preferred that someone else sh'd be chosen in my place. I know too well what is required of a Miss'y Bishop in these regions, not to shrink from undertaking the duties of that office, and if I could decline without the feeling of having justly incurred the reputation of weakness & cowardice in my Master's Service, I sh'd do so without hesitation. But I see not how I can honorably decline and am therefore unwillingly constrained to accept..."
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