BIB_ID
124426
Accession number
MA 364.55
Creator
Madison, James, 1749-1812.
Display Date
1790 Sept. 22.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 21.9 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmark to "The Rev'd Mr. Henley / Rendlesham / near / Ipswich."
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.
Rev. Samuel Henley was a professor or Moral Philosophy at the College of William and Mary from 1770-1775.
Reverend Madison was consecrated as Bishop of Virginia on September 19, 1790 in Canterbury, England.
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.
Rev. Samuel Henley was a professor or Moral Philosophy at the College of William and Mary from 1770-1775.
Reverend Madison was consecrated as Bishop of Virginia on September 19, 1790 in Canterbury, England.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Apologizing for not seeing him in London and being unable to accept his invitation; saying he has a "good opportunity" and must return to America; expressing his concerns for an impending war which would make travel more difficult.
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