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Autograph letter signed : Philadelphia, to Rev. [Stephen H.] Tyng, 1839 May 18.

BIB_ID
347144
Accession number
MA 367.99
Creator
Kemper, Jackson, 1789-1870.
Display Date
1839 May 18.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 24.5 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Revd. Dr. Tyng / Phila."
Docketed.
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
Asking him to move a resolution at this evening's meeting "that an effort be made to raise $10,000 for the establishment of the Bishop White Professorship in K[enyon] College near St. Louis."