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Autograph letter signed : New Haven, to Rev. Alexander V. Griswold, 1811 May 8.

BIB_ID
101493
Accession number
MA 365.25
Creator
Jarvis, Abraham, 1739-1813.
Display Date
1811 May 8.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 31.9 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Reverend Alexander V. Griswold / Bristol / Rhode Island."
Docketed.
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.
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
About offering himself for consecration as Bishop of Massachusetts.