BIB_ID
345379
Accession number
MA 375.1-169
Display Date
1867-1925.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 v. (170 items), bound : ill. (ports.) ; 40.8 cm
Notes
Includes MA 1326, an autograph letter signed from Bishop George H. Kinsolving to DuBose Murphy dated Sept. 23, 1925. This letter is laid in between MA 375.156 and MA 375.157.
Volume 12 (MA 375) 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.
Volume 12 (MA 375) 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 Bishops Edward Robert Atwill, William Morris Barker, William Jones Boone, Francis Key Brooke, Phillips Brooks, Ellison Capers, Joseph Blount Cheshire, Leighton Coleman, Thomas Frederick Davies, Samuel David Ferguson, Thomas F. Gailor, Mahlon Norris Gilbert, Charles Chapman Grafton, Anson Rogers Graves, Frederick R. Graves, Charles R. Hale, Henry Melville Jackson, James S. Johnston, Mills Kendrick, George Herbert Kinsolving, Cyrus F. Knight, William Lawrence, Abiel Leonard, William Andrew Leonard, William Ford Nichols, Isaac Lea Nicholson, William Paret, Nelson Somerville Rulison, Davis Sessums, Ethelbert Talbot, Elisha Smith Thomas, Boyd Vincent, William D. Walker, Alfred A. Watson, Edwin Gardner Weed, Lemuel H. Wells, and George Worthington. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records (MA 375.1-169 and MA 1326).
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