Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) was a prominent Episcopal clergyman. He was born on December 13, 1835, in Boston, Massachusetts, the second of six sons born to William Gray and Mary A. (Phillips) Brooks. Brooks graduated from Harvard College in 1855 and later enrolled in the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia. He began his religious ministry in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as a deacon in 1859. In 1862, he was named rector for the Church of the Holy Trinity in Philadelphia, where he became known as a prominent and impressive preacher . Brooks returned to Boston in 1869 as rector of the Trinity Church, a position he held for the next twenty-five years. In 1891, Brooks was elected Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Massachusetts. He held this position for two years, until his death on January 23, 1893.
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Phillips Brooks letter, RLC.Ms.504, Redwood Library and Athenaeum.
This collection consists of one letter written by Phillips Brooks on April 16, 1880, to Bishop Thomas M. Clark (1812-1903), the Bishop of Rhode Island from 1854-1903.
This collection is arranged in chronological order.
Gift of John Earle, 1989 June 1.
This collection was previously processed by Leah Podolsky in 2009 and Aimee Saunders in 2010.
Phillips Brooks Papers, 1832-1892, MS Am 1594.1, Houghton Library, Harvard University.