BIB_ID
345466
Accession number
MA 364.21
Creator
White, William, 1748-1836.
Display Date
1787 July 5.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 20.2 cm
Notes
Docketed on verso.
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 address panel to "The Rev Sam: Parker / Rector of Trinity Church / New York."
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 address panel to "The Rev Sam: Parker / Rector of Trinity Church / New York."
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa before 1901.
Summary
Asking for an accounting of the sales of the Prayer Book and reporting on the sales and inventory in Philadelphia; discussing how to sell them in Massachusetts and suggesting a possible "Allowance" if someone were to "take a Dozen;" discussing how to return them to Philadelphia if they cannot be sold in Massachusetts; adding that he wishes "most sincerely that Massachusetts would unite with us & choose a Person for Consecration; not merely as it would tend to cement our Church throughout ye whole Continent; but because I think it would add to ye Wisdom of our Determinations, whenever a Gen:l Convention shall be held for ye final Settlement of our Ecclesiastical System."
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