BIB_ID
346594
Accession number
MA 367.11
Creator
McIlvaine, Charles Pettit, 1799-1873.
Display Date
1845 June 13.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 24.7 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Rev. Alonzo Potter, D.D. / Schenectady / N. York."
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 postmark and 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 postmark and trace of a seal.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Expressing his "joy and thanks to God" that Potter has accepted the position of bishop of Pennsylvania; commenting on the difficulties of the position, and reiterating that he is glad Potter was chosen.
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