BIB_ID
346294
Accession number
MA 364.52
Creator
Provoost, Samuel, 1742-1815.
Display Date
1789 July 22.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal to "The Right Rev'd Dr. White / Bishop of the Prot. Episc: Church / in the State of / Pennsylvania."
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.
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.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Apologizing that he cannot accept his kind invitation because he has been ill with "constant fever and violent head-aches" and will be unable to attend the General Convention.
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