Record ID:
348305
Accession number:
MA 369.127
Credit:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description:
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Addressed to "Rev. W.S. Perry, / Portland, / Maine."
Part of a 12-volume collection of Autographs and Manuscripts of Bishops of The Protestant Episcopal Church (MA 364-375). The arrangement of the collection is by Bishops in the order of their consecration and chronological within their portion of the collection. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Summary:
Discussing the first Convention in Oregon, in 1833; noting that the Proceedings were only published locally, and he has not been able to procure a copy; telling Perry that the Diocese has not published anything because it is "not yet an organised Diocese."
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
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