BIB_ID
216089
Accession number
MA 365.124
Creator
Bowen, Nathaniel, 1779-1839.
Display Date
1823 Aug. 15.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 26.1 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Right Rev. Dr. Ravenscroft / Bishop of the P.E. Church in N. Carolina / Boydton / Mecklenburg County / Virginia."
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 postmark and 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 postmark and trace of a seal.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Asking for his cooperation in publication of a church periodical; mentioning Bishop [Philander] Chase's plan of "soliciting pecuniary aid" in England.
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