BIB_ID
106814
Accession number
MA 365.118
Creator
Croes, John, 1762-1832.
Display Date
1823 Dec. 4.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 24.6 cm
Notes
Addressed to "The Revd. Harry Croswell / New Haven / Connt."
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
Praising his "Young Churchman's Guide"; noting that the "catechetical mode of instruction ... contributes little or nothing to the acquisition of ideas"; asking to order 40 or 50 copies of the book.
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