BIB_ID
346355
Accession number
MA 364.59
Creator
Madison, James, 1749-1812.
Display Date
1795 Jan. 29.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Address panel to "Right Rev'd Bishop White / Philadelphia."
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
Thanking him for the copy of his sermon and sending him one of his sermons in return; expressing his disappointment at not having the annual convention and saying that the "effect, however, on the public mind is unfavourable, it bears too strong an impression of Inattention in those, where of all others it is most inexcusable."
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