BIB_ID
346949
Accession number
MA 367.70
Creator
Doane, George Washington, 1799-1859.
Display Date
1852 June 4.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 32.2 cm
Notes
At top of page: "A Chartered Libertine."
Includes an additional signed note to William P. Sherman at the bottom of p. 3.
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.
Includes an additional signed note to William P. Sherman at the bottom of p. 3.
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.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Maintaining that the expression "a chartered libertine" is not meant to "cast a shadow of licentious living"; pointing out that the expression is from Shakespeare's Henry V.
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