BIB_ID
345835
Accession number
MA 365.13
Creator
Bass, Edward, 1726-1803.
Display Date
1798 Sept. 30.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 22 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Revd. Dr. 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
Commenting on a letter from Bishop [William] White about the rescheduling of the Philadelphia convention because of the prevalence of yellow fever; saying he plans to visit the Rhode Island churches instead and will visit Parker; noting that the people on the Merrimack River want an itinerant minister and asking Parker to recommend a young man for the station.
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