BIB_ID
132292
Accession number
MA 365.30
Creator
Moore, Benjamin, 1748-1816.
Display Date
1795 Mar. 10.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Revd. Dr. S. Parker / Boston."
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 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 trace of a seal.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Discussing the character of Mr. Willard, a new addition to the church; asking what he should do with several folio copies of the morning and evening service belonging to Parker; mentioning that they are printing "a very handsome Folio Edition of the whole Book of Common Prayer"; recommending that every church in the United States should take at least two copies of this new edition.
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