BIB_ID
104377
Accession number
MA 365.110
Creator
Kemp, James, 1764-1827.
Display Date
1827 Sept. 8.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 24.7 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Rt. Revd. Bishop Ravenscroft / Raleigh / N. Carolina."
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.
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
Noting that he does not hear from other bishops as often as he would like; expressing his unease at the ordination of Mr. West in Ohio, and especially his concern over the bishop of Connecticut's role in the matter.
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