Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to [Alonzo Potter], 1849 Nov. 5.

BIB_ID
347076
Accession number
MA 366.105
Creator
Ives, L. Silliman (Levi Silliman), 1797-1867.
Display Date
1849 Nov. 5.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 16.9 cm
Notes
Identity of recipient inferred from contents of the letter and from a penciled notation at the top of the letter.
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
Apologizing that he will not be able to see him again before leaving town.