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Collection of autographs and manuscripts of the Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 1774-1862.

BIB_ID
345343
Accession number
MA 365.1a-129
Display Date
1774-1862.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 v. (130 items), bound : ill. (ports.) ; 40.8 cm
Notes
Volume 2 (MA 365) of a 12-volume collection (MA 364-375) of Autographs and Manuscripts of Bishops of The Protestant Episcopal Church. The arrangement of the collection is by Bishops in the order of their consecration and chronological within their portion of the collection.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
A collection of autographs and manuscripts of Edward Bass, Nathaniel Bowen, John Croes, Theodore Dehon, Alexander Viets Griswold, John Henry Hobart, Abraham Jarvis, James Kemp, Benjamin Moore, Richard Channing Moore, and Samuel Parker. Also with letters or documents by Nathaniel Fisher, Clement Clarke Moore, and John Wentworth. Collection includes a lock of James Kemp's hair (MA 365.99). Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records (MA 365.1a-1b, 2-129).