Record ID:
346764
Accession number:
MA 366.47
Credit:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901.
Description:
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 24.7 cm
Notes:
Address panel with return address to "Rev'd Wm. M. Green / Hillsborough / No. Carolina."
Bishop Ravenscroft's second wife, Sarah Buford, died in 1929.
Rev. Green would become the first Bishop of Mississippi in 1850.
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:
Apologizing for not writing sooner; discussing the worsening condition of his wife's health.
Provenance:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
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