BIB_ID
128695
Accession number
MA 364.68
Creator
Claggett, Thomas John, 1743-1816.
Display Date
1799 Mar. 30.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 20.2 cm
Notes
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.
The recipient, Rev. White, was the 1st Bishop of Pennsylvania and the 1st and 4th Bishop of the United States.
The recipient, Rev. White, was the 1st Bishop of Pennsylvania and the 1st and 4th Bishop of the United States.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Concerning scheduling conflicts for the Maryland delegation to the General Convention to be held in Philadelphia on June 11th; detailing the difficulties it poses for his delegation with respect to the expenses it will cause them and the time away from their businesses; expressing concerns for the location of the convention in Philadelphia with regard to the "fevers" reported over the warm winter; suggesting the General Convention be postponed until September and that it be held in Baltimore, Wilmington, Trenton or Burlington rather than Philadelphia.
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