To the Right Reverend William Bacon Stevens, D.D., LL.D., Bishop Of Pennsylvania.
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My Dear Bishop:
I desire to connect your name with whatever may be useful and valuable in this work, to show my high appreciation of your fervent piety, varied learning, and elegant literary accomplishments; and, also, far more than this, to record the personal acknowledgment that no man ever had a more constant, judicious, generous and affectionate brother, than you have been to me, for forty years of intimate and unbroken association.
Most affectionately and faithfully yours,
Henry Coppée.