Letter from Right Rev. Benjamin T. Onderdonk to Pierre Paris Irving
Entry/Object ID
HHV 003.217
Description
Letter from Right Rev. Benjamin T. Onderdonk to Pierre Paris Irving
Subject
Welcomes Pierre as clergyman to Diocese of New York
Subject Person/Organization
Benjamin Treadwell Onderdonk, D.D., Pierre Paris Irving (1806-1878), Rev. Horatio Southgate
Subject Place
* Untyped Subject Place
New York
Collection
Irving Manuscript Collection
Letter Details
Letter Date
Sep 24, 1844
Transcription
Transcription
Rev. and Dear Sir:
It gives me much pleasure to send / you the foregoing, and welcome you to my Diocese
I will thank you or Mr Dennison / to have sent to the several churches / on Sunday next the following notice: -
There will be diving ser - / vice this evening in St. Paul’s Chapel, / to commence at 7 o’clock, when the / Rev. Horatio Southgate, Mifsionary / to Constantinople, will deliver a / discourse on the subject of that mifsion / A collection will be made in aid of the mifsion.
I will thank you to read the / [Lefsen] on the above occasion, selecting for your - / self; and purpose [asking] [Dr. Chilver] to read prayers.
Yours very truly
Benj’n T. Onderdonk
Rev. Pierre P. Irving
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The Rev. Pierre P. irving, a Presbyter / of the Diocese of Western New York, having laid / before me a letter of [disrecession?] from the Bish - / op thereof, I hereby approve him as a clergy - / man in regular standing, and receive him / as a Presbyter of the Diocese of New York.
Benj’n T. Onderdonk
Bishop of New York
New York, September 24. 1844.
[END OF PAGE 2]
The Rev:
Pierre P. Irving
Broad Way
[RED WAX SEAL - imprint, illegible]
