BIB_ID
346501
Accession number
MA 366.5
Creator
Chase, Philander, 1775-1852.
Display Date
1823 July 29.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 24.7 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmarks to "Rt. Rev. Bishop Ravenscroft / care of Bishop C. Moore / Richmond / Virginia;" the address has been crossed through and in its place, written in an unknown hand, "Court House Mecklenburgh County."
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.
Place of writing from postmark.
Written above the salutation "Note of Communion & Charity / from the Bishop of Ohio to the / Bishop of North Carolina."
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.
Place of writing from postmark.
Written above the salutation "Note of Communion & Charity / from the Bishop of Ohio to the / Bishop of North Carolina."
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Informing him that he will be sailing to England "to accomplish designs of great importance to the Primitive Church of God in the Western States;" asking that he pray for his safety during the journey.
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