Record ID:
349019
Accession number:
MA 371.89
Credit:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description:
1 item (2 p.) ; 20.4 cm
Notes:
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:
Thanking him for his kind letter and his contribution to Clarkson's missionary work; talking about the lack of churches and Sunday schools in Nebraska; describing the "terrible plague of the grasshoppers" last summer and autumn and the people's suffering after their crops were destroyed.
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
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