BIB_ID
120063
Accession number
MA 364.32
Creator
White, William, 1748-1836.
Display Date
1827 Sept. 27.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 24.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmark and addressed to "Rt. Rev. John S. Ravenscroft DD / Bp. of ye Prot: Ep: Church, North / Carolina / in / Raleigh."
Docketed on verso.
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.
Docketed on verso.
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.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa before 1901.
Summary
Worrying that they may have been hasty in setting a consecration date for Dr. Onderdonk; expressing concerns regarding the ordination of someone who is a citizen of another country without waiting for the prescribed time by the Canons; adding, in a postscript, a reference to a particular contradiction in Church law.
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