Letter from Pierre Paris Irving to the Committee of the Church of St. Thomas
Entry/Object ID
HHV 003.260
Description
Letter from Pierre Paris Irving to the Committee of the Church of St. Thomas
Subject
Call to St. Thomas, accepted, salary
Subject Person/Organization
Pierre Paris Irving (1806-1878), Committee of the Church of St. Thomas
Subject Place
* Untyped Subject Place
New York
Collection
Irving Manuscript Collection
Letter Details
Letter Date
Jul 27, 1836
Transcription
Transcription
New York. July 27. 1836
Gentlemen
Your communication of / the 20th instant has received [^ my] serious co- / sideration, and although shrinking at / my own temerity I have come to the / conclusion that I will accept the invi- / tation it conveys, and Enter upon / the discharge of the duries connected / with the care of St Thomas’s Parish im- / mediately.
In taking [^ upon] myself so weighty and / responsible a charge, it is I need hardly / afsure you with the most unfeigned / sense of my own manifold deficien- / cies, you even the offer has been / laid before me in such a manner + / attended with such circumstances / as to induce me to think that in accept - / ing it, I am following the leading of / Divine Providence which it would be im= / [??] for me to decline __
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It is under this persuasion that / I feel encouraged to undertake a / charge so arduous + sp responsible, / still I fear that my inexperience [will] / compels me often to claim some [^ that?] indul- / gence from the members of the congre- / gation what I have reason to hope / they will be ready to Extend towards me - /
From various causes I feel a concern / for the parish which I [could] not at / the Commencement [^ Entertain] feel for any other / and this while it will naturally stim- / ulate me to Exertion, will also make my / labours the more pleasing to myself _
Begging you to Express to the / Vestry the sense I cannot but feel for [^ s-?-xx feelings which have been excite by ] / [your very flattering invitate + [^ ex-?] [the [??] of the [salary?] [promised] / the honour done me in inviting me / to such a situation, + for the great liberal- / ity shown in the Salary offered I am / +c
To Isaac [Law–??ence] } [Inquiry?]
Mr [Neilson] } Committee
W.H. [Jephson] } Vestry St Thomas Ch c NY
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[LABEL]
Reply to call of St. Thomas
Ch: N. York _ Accepting -
July 27. 1836
