Autograph letter signed : New York, to Revd. Dr. Sam[uel] Parker, 1790 Apr. 15.

Record ID: 
345901
Accession number: 
MA 365.28
Author: 
Moore, Benjamin, 1748-1816.
Credit: 
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description: 
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.5 cm
Notes: 

Addressed to "Revd. Dr. Sam. Parker / Boston."
Docketed.
With trace of a seal.
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.

Summary: 

Discussing church business, especially relations between the English bishops and the new American Episcopal church; questioning an unnamed bishop elect's decision to marry a young wife at his advanced age; describing the consecration of Trinity Church; sharing various pieces of gossip.

Provenance: 
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.