BIB_ID
348395
Accession number
MA 369.146
Creator
Lee, Henry W. (Henry Washington), 1815-1874.
Display Date
1865 July 6.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (5 p.) ; 22.5 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
Declining to sign Hopkins's circular to the Southern bishops; noting that some sentences in it "might give an impression to those to whom it is addressed that would be contrary to what I believe"; arguing that the Southern bishops should "go to work to undo what they have done in organizing a separate Ecclesiastical Body"; saying, "personally I should prefer to wait three years before having them again with us."
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