Autograph letter signed : Raleigh, to Messrs. T. & J. Swords, 1826 July 17.

Record ID: 
346739
Accession number: 
MA 366.43
Author: 
Ravenscroft, John Stark, 1772-1830.
Credit: 
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description: 
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 25.3 cm
Notes: 

Address panel with postmark and traces of a seal to "Messrs. T. & J. Swords / 99 Pearl Street / New York."
Docketed on verso and indicating that it was "answered and order executed, July 29, 1826."
T. and J. Swords was a printing company and bookseller in New York.
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.

Summary: 

Discussing a small balance due on a previous order and a lost packet of his "answer to Dr. Rice;" placing an order for books.

Provenance: 
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.