BIB_ID
346761
Accession number
MA 366.46
Creator
Ravenscroft, John Stark, 1772-1830.
Display Date
1827 Dec. 22.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 20.7 cm
Notes
Docketed on verso; below his signature, "Mess'rs Wm. C. Lord / and / James F. McRee."
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 asked by the Vestry of St. James Church in Wilmington, NC to be their rector; it appears he accepted but records do not show he actually served in that position.
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 asked by the Vestry of St. James Church in Wilmington, NC to be their rector; it appears he accepted but records do not show he actually served in that position.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Accepting their offer of November 15th; discussing his need for an assistant, time constraints on his schedule and details of his compensation and that of his assistant.
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