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.
A presentment of charges against Rev. George Washington Doane, Bishop of New Jersey ; including 31 specifications of charges, the primary focus of which is that "during the whole or a very large part of the period in which he has held and exercised his said office of Bishop has habitually incurred numerous and large debts far beyond any actual or probable means possessed or reasonably anticipated by him, of ever repaying said debts; the aggregate of said debts being not less than two hundred and eighty thousand dollars and probably amounting to three hundred thousand dollars."