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Autograph letter signed : Delafield, Wis., to Rev. J[ohn] H. Hopkins, 1857 Feb. 28.

BIB_ID
347163
Accession number
MA 367.104
Creator
Kemper, Jackson, 1789-1870.
Display Date
1857 Feb. 28.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 19.9 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.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Complaining about an editorial, "Bishop Kemper and the Missionary Dioceses," that appeared in the Episcopal Recorder. He believes this article "conveys a slander which [he] fully den[ies]."