BIB_ID
346764
Accession number
MA 366.47
Creator
Ravenscroft, John Stark, 1772-1830.
Display Date
1829 Jan. 11.
Credit line
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.
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. Green would become the first Bishop of Mississippi in 1850.
Bishop Ravenscroft's second wife, Sarah Buford, died in 1929.
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. Green would become the first Bishop of Mississippi in 1850.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Apologizing for not writing sooner; discussing the worsening condition of his wife's health.
Catalog link
Department