BIB_ID
346739
Accession number
MA 366.43
Creator
Ravenscroft, John Stark, 1772-1830.
Display Date
1826 July 17.
Credit line
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."
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.
T. and J. Swords was a printing company and bookseller in New York.
Docketed on verso and indicating that it was "answered and order executed, July 29, 1826."
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.
T. and J. Swords was a printing company and bookseller in New York.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
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.
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