BIB_ID
345805
Accession number
MA 365.6
Creator
Bass, Edward, 1726-1803.
Display Date
1786 May 6.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 24.3 cm
Notes
Addressed to "The Revd Samel. Parker / Boston."
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 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 trace of a seal.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Saying that he has been "lately twice disappointed as to seeing the metropolis"; wishing he had received Parker's invitation in time to meet Bishop Seabury at Parker's house; explaining that he could not get to the convention because "it was so rainy and the roads so deep"; mentioning a "very polite" letter he received from Bishop Seabury.
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