BIB_ID
346674
Accession number
MA 366.29
Creator
Brownell, Thomas Church, 1779-1865.
Display Date
1817 Sept. 30.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 23.9 cm
Notes
Address panel to "The Rt. Reverend / Bishop Hobart / New York" with return address as "Schen'dy Oct. 1"
Bishop Hobart was the 3rd Bishop of New York.
Docketed on the verso.
It is probable that Mr. Tiffany is Frederick T. Tiffany.
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.
Written from Union College.
Bishop Hobart was the 3rd Bishop of New York.
Docketed on the verso.
It is probable that Mr. Tiffany is Frederick T. Tiffany.
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.
Written from Union College.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Accepting his request to obtain an "appointment to the Carolina's and Georgia for the purpose of soliciting funds for the Theological Seminary; saying that the move to a southern climate would be beneficial to his health but that he is eager to raise monies for such a good cause; adding, in a postscript, that Mr. Tiffany has been studying theology under him and requesting that his name be added as a candidate for the Ministry.
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