Address panel with postmark and traces of a seal to "Rt. Rev. J.H. Hopkins, D.D. / Burlington, Vt."
Written from the Theological Seminary.
Docketed on verso.
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.
Asking if he might recommend some young candidates for orders who might wish to teach before they enter the Seminary or while they are studying; discussing the proposal for a "uniform [illegible] for the trial of clergymen. I had not the most remote conception that my case should become one of the most conspicuous in the annals of the church.....Passing events afford the best comment, perhaps upon what a proposed general and permanent law of the church should provide for. By pointing out the hardships, and the want of fairness, equity and justice to which I have felt myself subjected, I may furnish suggestions of some practical value;" detailing the specific hardships as they relate to procedural issues; adding "But I forbear. I did not intend to write as a croaker. My simple object was to furnish you with some of the lights of my sad experience for the benefit of the future assailed."