Kirwan; [Murray, Nicholas]. Letters to the Rt. Rev. John Hughes, Roman Catholic Bishop of New-York: First, Second, and Third Series. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1851. [11848]
Three items, each with separate title page and page numbers, here bound as one book.
Blind-stamped cloth, gilt design to spine, light edge-wear, joints good, 6 x 4 1/4 inches. Ticket of "Geo. Pattison & Co., Booksellers & Stationers, Memphis" inside the front cover. 103, 105, 105 generally clean pp., light foxing in the text. End papers have smudging and some stains; printed text relatively clean. Good. Hardcover
“Kirwan” was a pseudonym for Nicholas Murray, D.D., born in Ireland in 1802, emigrated to America in 1815; converted from Romanism to Presbyterianism, studied at Princeton and became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Elizabethtown, N.J. in 1833.
A series of letters to the Bishop of New York, detailing in respectful arguments his opposition to the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church and his reasons for not returning to the fold.
