Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation'

ACKNOWLEDGMENT BY THE BISHOP OF LONDON.

Reading edition

THE BISHOP OF LONDON

Illustration from Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts

(Copy)

Fulham Palace, S.W.

Oct. 16, 1897.

Dear Sir,

I would ask you to express to the Convention of the two branches of the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts my grateful thanks for the copy of their resolution of May 26, which was presented to me by Mr. Adams.[A]

I consider it a great privilege to have been associated with an act of courtesy, which was also an act of justice, in restoring to its proper place a document which is so important in the records of your illustrious Commonwealth.

I am

Yours faithfully,

M. LONDON.

H.D. Coolidge, Esq.

Clerk of the Convention.

Notes in this chapter

Note 1 · The Hon. Charles Francis Adams.