BIB_ID
346991
Accession number
MA 366.88
Creator
Stone, William Murray, 1779-1838.
Display Date
1836 July 16.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 25.0 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmark to "Elie Beatty, Esquire / Hagerstown / Md."
Docketed on verso.
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. Robert Brent Drane was the rector of St. James Church in Hagerstown.
Docketed on verso.
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. Robert Brent Drane was the rector of St. James Church in Hagerstown.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Referring to an "unhappy difference between you and your tutor" that he had hoped to help resolve; saying he had communicated with Rev. Drane in which he did not mention a specific charge but rather "their conduct has been scandalous and unchristian to a degree fully warranting my procedure against them."
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