BIB_ID
129271
Accession number
MA 364.67
Creator
Claggett, Thomas John, 1743-1816.
Display Date
1798 July 25.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 19.1 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal to " Mr. James Kemp / Castle Haven / near / Cambridge Dorchester / County Maryland."
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, James Kemp, would become the 2nd Bishop of Maryland upon Bishop Claggett's death (1816-1827).
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, James Kemp, would become the 2nd Bishop of Maryland upon Bishop Claggett's death (1816-1827).
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Detailing his travel arrangements for his visit and following that their trip to Philadelphia for the Convention; adding a note on the verso of the address panel deputizing Joseph Jackson to secure a vessel going to Cambridge, Maryland for the delivery of this letter.
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