BIB_ID
446659
Accession number
MA 4733.69:6
Creator
Smyth, Frederic Hastings, 1888-1960, sender.
Display Date
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1942 June 23
Credit line
Gift of Herbert Cahoon, 1993.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 27.8 x 21.5 cm
Notes
Written on letterhead stationery printed "transubstantio mundi per incarnationem / Oratory of St. Mary and St. Michael / Society of the Catholic Commonwealth / 12 Putnam Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts".
Provenance
Herbert Cahoon.
Summary
Informing that Bishop Manning [William Thomas Manning, 1866-1949, Episcopal bishop of New York City from 1921 to 1946] refused to licence Smyth for more than one year and that he took issue with the "'Oratory' always caus[ing] 'trouble'"; further lamenting that "most officials of the Church ... never face you honestly"; informing that the laymen on the Vestry of Corpus Christi "were simply splendid" and "became genuinely enthusiastic" at "new stuff in their ears" that Smyth told them but that "they did not feel themselves in any position to buck the Bishop"; expressing his bitterness at the Church and that he believes "the only hope for the future ... is to get rid of the Church"; regretting that Ed [Edwin Seldon, 1917-1984?] is unhappy and informing that everyone is away from Cambridge, and that he may be able to see Cahoon on his way to Sweet Briar, Virginia in early July.
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