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Bishop Chase expresses his regret to not be able to visit with Bishop of Durham due to prior engagements.
Date
4-20-1824
City
London
Keywords
Chase's copy, England voyage
Recommended Citation
Chase, Philander, "Letter to Bishop of Durham" (1824). Philander Chase Letters. 232.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/chase_letters/232
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My Lord Bishop
It is with the deepest and most unfeigned regret that I am compelled to forego the pleasure your Lordship’s very kind invitation on Thursday. I find that by an engagement of near three weeks standing I am expected to spend nearly the whole of that day at Greenwich, where several Gentlemen, who have received the Appeals, are to meet me, and one travels 72 miles for that purpose. I am sadly apt to forget this sort of engagements; and in my great desire to have the honor of waiting upon your Lordship I overlooked that of Thursday, and indeed had confused the name of Stow (the Gentleman whose house I am to visit on Thursday) with that of the place I am to visit on Friday in my way to Warwickshire.
I shall avail myself of my first opportunity of having a chance of seeing your Lordship by calling in a morning. I am, with sincere veneration,
Your faithful Brother in Christ
and much obliged Servant
Philander Chase
Featherstone Buildings
20th April Evening