BIB_ID
350070
Accession number
MA 374.15
Creator
Gillespie, George DeNormandie, 1819-1909.
Display Date
1879 Aug. 12.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20.1 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 the transfer of a young Clergyman whose family would like him to remain in the East; discussing the difficulties of a small Diocese with few resources; adding that he could "wish our young men had more of the spirit you refer to. The Denominations make their progress very much by young men going out regardless of promised support while our young clergy seem ambitious of prominent and easy place."
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