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Pratt met with Lord Gambier today, and showed him the correspondence between Chase and Marriott. Gambier is anxious to secure the independence of the Ohio Sanctuary.
Date
2-21-1824
City
London, England
Keywords
England voyage, Lord Gambier, George Marriott, Bp. Hobart, Branch School
Recommended Citation
Pratt, Josiah, "Letter to Philander Chase" (1824). Philander Chase Letters. 281.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/chase_letters/281
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London
Feb. 21st 1824
Right Rev. and Dear Sir
Having had an opportunity of seeing Lord Gambier this morning, I read to his Lordship your Letter to Mr. Marriott, and the copy of the Letter of Mr. Marriott to which yours was a reply, and also stated to him what reply I had ventured to recommend that you should give to Mr. Marriott, and the outline of the arrangement between yourself and Bishop Hobart which I suggested, including the option to be given to the Convention of Ohio that yours should or should not be a Branch School, and also the provision that 10,000 dollars (should the subscription in this country amount to that sum) should be secured to Ohio, before the proposed [?] for the General Seminary should operate. In all this, his Lordship fully coincided. He is anxious, with all the [friends] of the American Church, that every thing should be done to secure [has] money provided the real efficiency and independence of the Ohio Seminary be secured. This point will not be [?] by any of us; but, having secured that, you will yourself, my Dear SIr, I am sure, be the foremost among us to forget what is past, and to give the right-hand of fellowship even to those who have not adhered to the law of charity.
I am ever, Dear Sir
Your obedient and affect. Servant
Josiah Pratt