BIB_ID
346687
Accession number
MA 366.35
Creator
Brownell, Thomas Church, 1779-1865.
Display Date
1823 Nov. 16.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 24.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmark and traces of a seal to "Rt. Rev'd / John S. Ravenscroft / Boydton / Mecklenburg / Virginia."
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.
Rev. Ravenscroft was the first 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.
Rev. Ravenscroft was the first Bishop of North Carolina.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Replying to his inquiry about the publication of the Book of Common Prayer and informing him that publication will be complete today; saying that they will cost $7 per copy but if booksellers wish to purchase them in bulk they will receive a 25% discount and that if he should order any he would receive the discount; saying he has no Ecclesiastical news to relate except that the Church is steadily growing; saying that they are "engaged in the establishment of an Episcopal College;" discussing the differing opinions on the establishment of a Seminary in Ohio by Bishop Chase and the letters circulating about it.
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