Autograph letter signed : Lexington, Kentucky, to Rev. J.H. Hopkins, 1837 Nov. 30.

Record ID: 
347285
Accession number: 
MA 366.139
Author: 
Smith, B. B. (Benjamin Bosworth), 1794-1884.
Credit: 
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description: 
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 24.9 cm
Notes: 

Address panel with postmark and traces of a seal to "Rt. Rev. J.H. Hopkins, D.D. / Burlington, Vt."
Docketed on verso.
Written from the Theological Seminary.
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.

Summary: 

Complimenting him on the excellence of the scholarship in his most recent publication.

Provenance: 
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.