White, William; Stowe, Walter Herbert [editor]. The Life and Letters of Bishop William White, together with the Services and Addresses commemorating The One Hundred Fiftieth Anniversary of his consecration to the Episcopate; Church Historical Society Publication No. 9. New York and Milwaukee: Morehouse Publishing Co., 1937. First Edition. [10212]
Lavender cloth with gilt titles, 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches, former owner's name in pencil on ffep, small old price stamp to top page edge, raised crease near the bottom of the backstrip. Frontispiece & several additional b/w plates, xiii., 306 clean pp., index, tight. Very good. Hardcover.
This memorial volume by several contributors relates the life of Bishop White as well as some of his many accomplishments as well as his abilities as a church leader. There is also a section of biographies of Archbishop Moore and the English Co-Consecrators. The Letters take up pages 250-283 and there is a 16-pp. bibliography of writings devoted to Bishop White published before 1937.
William White (1748-1836), first and fourth presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, chaplain to the Continental Congress, second US Senate chaplain, and the first bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania.
