BIB_ID
350849
Accession number
MA 374.110
Creator
Seymour, George F. (George Franklin), 1829-1906.
Display Date
[1892 July 19].
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 21.3 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.
This fragment is the final 3 pages of a letter written on July 19, 1892; the first 4 pages were bound earlier in the collection and are cataloged separately as MA 374.116.
This letter is in reference to the consecration of Charles Reuben Hale as Assistant Bishop of Springfield on July 26, 1892 with the title of the Bishop of Cairo.
Written on the stationery of the "Bishop's House, / Springfield, Illinois."
This fragment is the final 3 pages of a letter written on July 19, 1892; the first 4 pages were bound earlier in the collection and are cataloged separately as MA 374.116.
This letter is in reference to the consecration of Charles Reuben Hale as Assistant Bishop of Springfield on July 26, 1892 with the title of the Bishop of Cairo.
Written on the stationery of the "Bishop's House, / Springfield, Illinois."
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Saying that every Bishop ought to have "... a spot on which he can stand & call it his own. I tried to keep for Bedell the title Ohio while he lived & let Leonard be called of Cleveland, until Bedell's death & then he could succeed to the title if he wished;" asking "Are you ready to throw overboard the 39 Articles? Will this [illegible] of the ship be with us? Only three or four Bps. could write such an egotistical letter & I hope only one would & he did with a vengeance."
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