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Collection of autographs and manuscripts of the Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 1850-1893.

BIB_ID
345375
Accession number
MA 371.1-170
Display Date
1850-1893.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 v. (169 items), bound : ill. (ports.) ; 40.8 cm
Notes
Numbering skips MA 371.54.
Volume 8 (MA 371) 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 William Edmond Armitage, Robert Harper Clarkson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, George David Cummins, John Barrett Kerfoot, Charles Todd Quintard, George M. Randall, Thomas Hubbard Vail, Channing Moore Williams, Joseph Pere Bell Wilmer, and Richard Hooker Wilmer. Also with a document signed by William Rollinson Whittingham. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records (MA 371.1-170).