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Happy about new church - $5000 already given. Draft of clergy will be light - about one in fourteen. Has run an article in the paper asking drafted clergy to notify him.
ISBN
KMcI 630803
Date
8-3-1863
Keywords
letter, McIlvaine, Bedell, church
Recommended Citation
McIlvaine, Charles Pettit, "Letter to Bishop Bedell" (1863). Charles Pettit McIlvaine Letters. 103.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/mcilvaine_letters/103
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Bp: McIlvaine
about [??]
Cinc Aug. 3 /63
11
My dear Bp.
I was well pleased with your arrangement of the President’s Proclamation &c. The parish here has purchased + paid for a [parsonage] at $4800 every [cent] discharged. [?] we shall have a real Church. Mr Bowler promises $3000 + a stained glass windows, at the East end. Another [?] of the Congregation (Mr. [Probaia’s] brother in law) $2000 for the organ, front + other insides. I have seen about the [?] It will be very light, not [?] than one in fourteen.
The Provost Marshall have promised me every and in getting substituted at the lowest price + say many apply to be substitutes. I doubt whether we shall have more than two to look after, + probably the cost of substitutes for both will not exceed $300. I have asked Mr. [Mormon] to put a notice in the paper requesting a drafted clergyman at once to inform me. I wish you would see as soon as possible whether any name is to be made about Dr. [Sumthe]. I was sorry to see that Dr. Dyer’s house was entered by the [mob??].
Yours affectionately
C.P.M.