BIB_ID
348529
Accession number
MA 369.165
Creator
Potter, Horatio, 1802-1887.
Display Date
1867 Dec. 4.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 15.4 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
Accusing him of officiating at the South without his permission, of drinking, and of offering himself to the Romanists; telling him that he ought to renounce the ministry and become a teacher because he does not have "sufficient control over [him]self to be the pastor of a flock; demanding that he return a letter Potter wrote for him and send in his "request to be displaced from the ministry"; informing him that he will "take other steps to prevent [him] from injuring the Church" if he doesn't hear from him soon.
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