BIB_ID
347159
Accession number
MA 366.120
Creator
Hopkins, John Henry, 1792-1868.
Display Date
1864 May 20.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 20.4 cm
Notes
Mr. Cist was a banker and government official in St. Louis and a collector of autographs and portraits; Cist collected autographs for the U.S. Sanitary Fairs.
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.
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
Saying he would be happy to provide a letter and a photograph to the Mississippi Sanitary Fair, "to be sold for the benefit of the sick and wounded soldiers."
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