BIB_ID
347090
Accession number
MA 366.107
Creator
Hopkins, John Henry, 1792-1868.
Display Date
1826 Feb. 13.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 13.0 cm
Notes
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.
There is no salutation to indicate the recipient, but this fragment is docketed to the left of the signature and below the docket are the initials "W.W;" it is possible that the letter was written to Bishop William White, Bishop of Pennsylvania.
There is no salutation to indicate the recipient, but this fragment is docketed to the left of the signature and below the docket are the initials "W.W;" it is possible that the letter was written to Bishop William White, Bishop of Pennsylvania.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Offering changes to a text; informing him that a Mr. Jones will be publishing a "statistical account of Pittsburgh with a directory;" asking for his approval to include an engraving of the Episcopal Church on the frontispiece of the publication.
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